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
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
Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin."
From Time Magazine Archive
These psychoneurotic conditions in large muscles help us to understand what happens in organic diseases.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
