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Physiological vs Psychosocial - What's the difference?

physiological | psychosocial |

As adjectives the difference between physiological and psychosocial

is that physiological is of, or relating to physiology while psychosocial is having both psychological and social aspects.

physiological

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to physiology.
  • Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.

    • Synonyms

    * physiologic

    psychosocial

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (of behaviour) having both psychological and social aspects
  • * '>citation
    • 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 the-
    ories only because they are false. [...]