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

Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a mild psychoneurotic type, exhibiting under stress unusual mental phenomena.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William