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psychoneurotic

[sahy-koh-noo-rot-ik, -nyoo-] / ˌsaɪ koʊ nʊˈrɒt ɪk, -njʊ- /




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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer, for all his dashing aggressiveness, would have been discharged as a psychoneurotic.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The paper acts as a constant source of suggestion for the cure of the psychoneuroses when the affection is purely psychoneurotic.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh




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