psychogenic psychogenic a psychogenic effect is one that originates from the brain instead of other physical organs (i.e. the cause is psychological rather than physiological) and may refer to: psychogenic pain psychogenic disease psychogenic amnesia psychogenic cough, i.e. a habit cough mass psychogenic illness look up psychogenic in wiktionary, the free dictionary. this article is issued from wikipedia. the text is licensed under creative commons - attribution - sharealike. additional terms may apply for the media files.