ideogenic

English

Etymology

From ideo- +‎ -genic.

Adjective

ideogenic (not comparable)

1. 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).