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

Basically, it isn't so much the heat of battle that makes a soldier break down and become psychoneurotic; it's a combination of past woes and the sympathy he knows he'll get behind the lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scarcely disguised locale is the New York summer resort of Fire Island, but the cast of psychoneurotic summer people and scurvy natives needs to be taken with a pinch of salt water.

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

Here, then, we have a definite case in which by the analysis of a single and incidentally the first dream we have arrived at the genesis of the psychoneurotic disorder.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various