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

Basically physical ills will ebb and flow with climate and weather changes; psychoneurotic troubles vary with alterations in the patient's emotional state or "internal climate."

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

Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Usually when the word dreads is used, it is meant to signify a series of psychic or psychoneurotic conditions from which sensitive, nervous people suffer a great deal.

From Health Through Will Power by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)