neurosis

I keep coming back to psychoanalyst Karen Horney’s 1950 discussion of neurosis and the professions—how they can attract exactly the wrong people, masquerading ideals they don’t possess.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

I've just worked on developing better skills to keep myself from talking myself into a place of neurosis.

From Salon ● Apr. 17, 2025

A victory to flush out any neurosis and compound the belief in their plan.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2024

And if we cannot find a referent for the normal and the good, how can we possibly come back from our national neurosis?

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2024

His works wrenched and distorted, as if painted through neurosis.

From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys

The film’s merit is not simply in how it illustrates the structures that bind and confine, but in how Wilde propulsively peels them apart to create a picture of romantic neuroses anyone can relate to.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

It was like “The Truman Show” mixed with “Twelve Angry Men,” or a segment of “Candid Camera” stretched into a series, or Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal,” minus the neuroses and cruelty.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026

“This Is Not About Us” mines excellent, bone-dry humor from the neuroses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Combining the neuroses of insecure teenagers and the poll-monitoring reticence of politicians fit for parody, they appear both weak and bashful.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2025

She was always saying she was—“I understand why you’re saying that, Willy”—but secretly she was ferreting out my neuroses.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman