neurosis

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Mr. Whishaw, who also starred in Mr. Sachs’s “Passages” in 2023, brings to his performance a martini-dry comic flair with a twist of New York neurosis.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025

I've just worked on developing better skills to keep myself from talking myself into a place of neurosis.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2025

In a way we are called to do similar work with types, with the objective being to stop pathologizing the ones that might heal us or rescue us from neurosis.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024

A victory to flush out any neurosis and compound the belief in their plan.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2024

I'd sit in front of her desk and make troubled-brow faces which I thought illustrated the deep level of neurosis I represented.

From "Hole in My Life" by Jack Gantos