Skip to main content
Dictionary
Store
Blog
World
Help
Advertise
Chat
System Status
Information Collection Notice
Trademark Concerns
reCAPTCHA Privacy
Terms of Service
reCAPTCHA Terms
Privacy Policy
Accessibility
Report a Bug
Data Request
Contact Us
Security
DMCA
© 1999–2026 Urban Dictionary ®
Mugs
Tees
Hoodies
Pro Customization
Create unique products with your own words and definitions
Preview
Personalize Your Design
Your Word
Your Definition
A speculative concept referring to the application of eugenic principles to psychology and mental health—the idea of selecting, engineering, or eliminating psychological traits deemed undesirable. Psychoeugenics encompasses historical practices (forced sterilization of people diagnosed with mental illness) and hypothetical futures (genetic selection for "emotional stability," neural engineering for "normal" personality, elimination of neurodivergence). The term connects contemporary mental health discourse to the dark history of eugenics, asking whether the drive to eliminate mental illness can be separated from the drive to eliminate mentally ill people. Critics argue that psychoeugenics repeats eugenic logic by treating psychological variation as defect, framing elimination as treatment, and assuming there is one "healthy" way to be human.
Text fits
Save
Cancel