psychoneurotic

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Her use of bold 1970s-inspired trippy straight lines and hippie flowers reflects in many ways the push-pull of a scientist undergoing a psychoneurotic fantasy.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2011

Church members are proud of the fact that of 634 of their boys in the armed forces not one was discharged for psychoneurotic reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue."

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, the theory of all psychoneurotic symptoms culminates in the proposition that they too must be taken as wish-fulfillments of the unconscious.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund