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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It often happens that after an acute lumbago has run its course, there is left a chronic achiness only partly physical and largely psychoneurotic.

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