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