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 reader is apt to get the impression that the term, psychoneurotic, means the same thing as paranoiac.

From Time Magazine Archive

A recent study of a representative sampling of the church's clergy men claims that fully 68% suffer from "mental, psychoneurotic and personality disorders."

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.

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The types of neuroses we have mentioned occur occasionally in pure form; more often they are blended with one another or with a psychoneurotic condition.

From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Freud, Sigmund