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

Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

She is a mild psychoneurotic type, exhibiting under stress unusual mental phenomena.

From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William