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
He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp.
From Time Magazine Archive
Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices.
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
We shall not, however, hesitate to assert that the existence of the infantile amnesia gives us a new point of comparison between the psychic states of the child and those of the psychoneurotic.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
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