• Psychosocial

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: en, /ËŒsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl/
    • US IPA: en, /ËŒsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/
    • Rhymes: -en, -əʊʃəl

    Origin

    - + psycho + social

    Full definition of psychosocial

    Adjective

    psychosocial

    1. (of behaviour) Having both psychological and social aspects.
      • 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., The Myth of Mental Illness Chapter 6, 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 the-
        ories only because they are false. ...
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