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
The failure rate is low; an FAA study showed that for every 1,000 pilots tested, only eight are denied certification for medical reasons, and only two of those for psychoneurotic disorders.
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The reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac.
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Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer, for all his dashing aggressiveness, would have been discharged as a psychoneurotic.
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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