psychosocial
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
psychosocial (not comparable)
- (of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.
- 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 6, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 102:
- It seems to me that most of those who adhere to an organicist position in psychiatry espouse a system of values of which they are unaware. They imply that they recognize as scientific only physics (and its branches), but instead of asserting this, they say that they object to psychosocial theories only because they are false.
- 2023 December 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Erikson's stages of psychosocial development”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
- Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, as articulated in the second half of the 20th century by Erik Erikson in collaboration with Joan Erikson,[1] is a comprehensive psychoanalytic theory that identifies a series of eight stages that a healthy developing individual should pass through from infancy to late adulthood.
Related terms
Translations
having both psychological and social aspects
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See also
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
psychosocial (feminine psychosociale, masculine plural psychosociaux, feminine plural psychosociales)
Further reading
- “psychosocial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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