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psychoneurotic

[sahy-koh-noo-rot-ik, -nyoo-] / ˌsaɪ koʊ nʊˈrɒt ɪk, -njʊ- /




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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

Common colds, minor injuries, gastrointestinal upsets, back pain, arthritis and psychoneurotic anxiety states account for the vast majority of visits to clinics and doctors' offices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Menninger's summary: in World War II, Custer, for all his dashing aggressiveness, would have been discharged as a psychoneurotic.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just three months old, it already has 2,000 psychoneurotic patients, with an overflow of 1,500 more farmed out to private clinics and hospitals.

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 Sigmund Freud


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