psychosexual
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- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkoʊsɛkʃuəl/
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psicosexual
- The psychosexual aspects of his therapy focused on understanding his childhood experiences.
- psychosexual development
- psychosexual stage
You have some, you know, middling to quite severe psychosexual issues that you haven't worked through.
- You have some, you know, middling to quite severe psychosexual issues that you haven't worked through.
- And you, you do something which on a first glance in psychosexual, you know, might be seen as a shtick.
Examples
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Following Robert Nugent, they define sexual orientation as a "psychosexual attraction (erotic, emotional, and affective) toward particular individual persons" of the opposite or of the same sex.
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Doubtless, eros-related defenses are indeed present in adulthood to some extent when dealing with needs across the psychosexual spectrum.
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The interviews included questions about psychosexual development, and some of the men mentioned early sexual experiences with adults, with various emotional reactions.
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You have some, you know, middling to quite severe psychosexual issues that you haven't worked through.
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She speaks in streams of consciousness about her emotional and psychosexual development, prompted by Henry's questions.
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We are physically sexed, and our psychosexual outlook on the world is underpinned by a knowledge of how our sexed apparatus works.
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Yet this concept states that, due to the increasing human lifespan, conceptualizations of the developmental process should be revised to consider a postgenital psychosexual stage of development that begins around the age of 50 and transpires within the context of meeting the filial obligations of caring for aged parents.
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Briefly, Theresa's case has been diagnosed as one of acute hallucinatory psychoses brought on by a particularly difficult and prolonged adolescent psychosexual adjustment, no doubt aggravated by a somewhat obsessional religious nature.
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Research shows that psychosexual development can significantly impact adult relationships.
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The coach emphasized the importance of addressing the psychosexual issues facing the players.
Compounds
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A process in which a child's personality and feelings about sex change through stages like oral and genital
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word psychosexual combines psych- meaning 'mind' or 'soul' and sexual meaning 'sex' or 'sexual feelings'. So psychosexual describes the psychological or emotional side of sexuality.