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

Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hitler's psychoneurotic schnapp-suds � gill megalomaniac absinthe � la Mussolini �cup dry water 1 handful lukewarm ice 1 11beral dash Czechoslovak bitterness Hold nose while drinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

They develop exactly as psychoneurotic conditions do in the abdomen or in joints.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)