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

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

He examined 1,880 psychoneurotic British soldiers and found that 171 had writer's cramp.

From Time Magazine Archive

The paper acts as a constant source of suggestion for the cure of the psychoneuroses when the affection is purely psychoneurotic.

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