Why “psychogenesis” is a great word
PSYCHOGENESIS — [Noun] The origin and development of psychological processes, personality, or behavior, or the development of a physical disorder from a psychological cause. Formed within English by compounding, from the combining form psycho- (from Greek psykhē, meaning "soul, mind, spirit") and -genesis (from Greek genesis, meaning "origin, creation"). First attested in the period 1830–40. Unlike "somatogenesis," which traces disorder to bodily origins, or "ontogeny," which maps an organism's full biological development, psychogenesis is the archaeology of the unseen self. It is the trauma blooming as a tremor in the hand, the repressed memory that manifests as a phantom pain, or the childhood story hardening into the bedrock of a personality—the quiet acknowledgment that every mind contains its own creation myth.