neuroses

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Neuroses and angst fill Manhattan yuppie best friends on the eve of one’s wedding.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2019

In his 1884 lecture series On Visceral Neuroses, physician T. Clifford Allbutt suggested that, like hysterics, fasting girls were responding histrionically—aka overreacting—to the day’s gender imperatives.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2017

Best pieces in his book, Bed of Neuroses, are the parodies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Neuroses do not always explode into nervous breakdowns.

From Time Magazine Archive

For to-day's address he has chosen as a subject, "The Relation of the Neuroses to the Psychoses."

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society