neurosis

[ UK /njuːɹˈə‍ʊsɪs/ ]
[ US /nʊˈɹoʊsəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
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How To Use neurosis In A Sentence

  • A psychological counseling case of anxiety neurosis with panic attack was reported in this article.
  • Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
  • Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself.
  • He later identifies that pathological disposition as a form of obsessional neurosis tinged with narcissistic tendencies.
  • ` ` Some degree of mental deficiency seems usually to accompany athetosis, even when uncomplicated by any other degenerating neurosis. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
  • For those of you who slept through the Podiatry 101 lecture in medical school, this condition is an irritation of the -- ahem -- plantar fascia, aka the plantar aponeurosis -- which is the ligamental structure under the foot that supports the arch. Archive 2009-06-01
  • Generally speaking, they regarded it as an anxiety neurosis—a “phonophobia” or fear of speech as one therapist put it in 1830; and this pre-Freudian view of the problem would, in fact, prove more pertinent than what psychoanalysis expounded in its wake. Knotted Tongues
  • In the sacral region, these fasciculi arise from the back of the sacrum, as low as the fourth sacral foramen, from the aponeurosis of origin of the Sacrospinalis, from the medial surface of the posterior superior iliac spine, and from the posterior sacroiliac ligaments; in the lumbar region, from all the mamillary processes; in the thoracic region, from all the transverse processes; and in the cervical region, from the articular processes of the lower four vertebræ. IV. Myology. 6. The Fasciæ and Muscles of the Trunk. a. The Deep Muscles of the Back
  • Why not write a book in praise of the obsession, celebrating the neurosis at the heart of all literature?
  • Karon and Widener then described what they identified as a typical combat hysterical neurosis.
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