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

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

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

Discharges for physical and psychoneurotic disabilities are still running in the thousands monthly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The symptom in the true neuroses is frequently the nucleus and incipient stage of development of the psychoneurotic symptom.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund