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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

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

He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp.

From Time Magazine Archive

These psychoneurotic conditions in large muscles help us to understand what happens in organic diseases.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh




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