Meanings
- not comparableHaving both psychological and social aspects.
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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.
1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 6, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 102Erikson'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.
2023 December 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Erikson's stages of psychosocial development”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation
Origin
- Ancient Greekψῡχή (psūkhḗ)
- Ancient Greekψῡχο- (psūkho-)
- Englishpsycho-
- Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
- Proto-Indo-European*sokʷéh₂
- Proto-Indo-European*sokʷh₂ṓy
- Proto-Indo-European*sokʷyós
- Proto-Italic*sokjos
- Latinsokios
- Latinsocius
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinsociāli
- Middle Frenchsocia
- Englishsocial
- Englishpsychosocial
Translations
Catalan psicosocial
- psicosocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Czech psychosociální
- psychosociálníhaving both psychological and social aspects
Danish psykosocial
- psykosocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Finnish psykososiaalinen
- psykososiaalinenhaving both psychological and social aspects
French psychosocial
- psychosocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Indonesian psikososial
- psikososialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Irish síceasóisialta
- síceasóisialtahaving both psychological and social aspects
Portuguese psicossocial
- psicossocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Spanish psicosocial
- psicosocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Swedish psykosocial
- psykosocialhaving both psychological and social aspects
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with psychosocial
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psychosocial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychosocial
“psychosocial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychosocial. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “psychosocial,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/psychosocial.
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