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

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

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, it isn't so much the heat of battle that makes a soldier break down and become psychoneurotic; it's a combination of past woes and the sympathy he knows he'll get behind the lines.

From Time Magazine Archive

When I give a psychoneurotic patient analytical treatment, dreams are always, as I have said, the subject of our discussion.

From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund