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

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

Hitler's psychoneurotic schnapp-suds � gill megalomaniac absinthe � la Mussolini �cup dry water 1 handful lukewarm ice 1 11beral dash Czechoslovak bitterness Hold nose while drinking.

From Time Magazine Archive

Church members are proud of the fact that of 634 of their boys in the armed forces not one was discharged for psychoneurotic reasons.

From Time Magazine Archive

If, besides, the patient has the feeling that they must be doing him good because of materials in their composition, the psychoneurotic elements are more readily relieved.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)