psychosocial

English

Etymology

psycho- +‎ social

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ̯.kəʊ̯ˈsəʊ̯.ʃəl/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌsaɪ̯.koʊ̯ˈsoʊ̯.ʃəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊʃəl

Adjective

psychosocial (not comparable)

1. (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^[1], 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

• biopsychosocial

Translations

having both psychological and social aspects

• Catalan: psicosocial
• Czech: psychosociální
• Danish: psykosocial
• Finnish: psykososiaalinen (fi)
• French: psychosocial (fr)
• Irish: síceasóisialta
• Portuguese: psicossocial
• Spanish: psicosocial
• Swedish: psykosocial (sv)

See also

• psychohistorical

French

Etymology

From psycho- +‎ social.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /psi.kɔ.sɔ.sjal/

Adjective

psychosocial (feminine psychosociale, masculine plural psychosociaux, feminine plural psychosociales)

1. psychosocial

Further reading

• “psychosocial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.