Psychogenesis
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The word Psychogenesis (from the Greek psyche - mind or feelings, and genesis - origin) is a term primarily used in psychology, though it has also been co-opted into a science fiction terminology with a completely different application.
[edit] Psychology
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Psychogenesis refers to the origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior or the development of a physical disorder or illness resulting from psychic, rather than physiological, factors.
[edit] Science fiction
Psychogenesis is the relatively unheard of psi power of creating matter merely from thought, can also be loosely related to reality warping. While the word is also a medical term for something, usually a mental disorder, created of the mind, it was broadened to include anything that can be created[citation needed]. It is considered the most unlikely and impossible of all psi powers within the realm of parapsychology[citation needed]. Little is known about it and how it works and there are no known recorded happenings of it ever appearing[citation needed]. See also Materialization (parapsychology).
[edit] Popular culture
In the Dexter's Laboratory extra cartoon "Dial M for Monkey," Monkey encounters a powerful psionic gorilla named Simian. Simian had psychogenesis as one of his powers.
