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

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

The failure rate is low; an FAA study showed that for every 1,000 pilots tested, only eight are denied certification for medical reasons, and only two of those for psychoneurotic disorders.

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

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