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
"Medically speaking," Dr. Mortimer announced, "Eyring is psychoneurotic."
From Time Magazine Archive
The first line, taken off a pillbox, sets the tone: "Useful in acute and chronic depression, where accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, agitation; psychoneurotic states manifested by tension, apprehension, fatigue."
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
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 Sigmund Freud
