ideogenic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ideogenic (not comparable)
- Arising from an idea, or from a person's own thoughts.
- 2018, Paul Williams, John Keane, Sira Dermen, Independent Psychoanalysis Today:
- Unlike Freud's formulation of hysteria as ideogenic, the early Independents ascribed pathology to exogenous causes (that is, inadequate maternal function vs. the baby's hostile predisposition or fantasies).