NOUN
- a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
How To Use psychoneurosis In A Sentence
- Hysteria can currently be defined as a form of psychoneurosis characterized by disturbances of the sensory and motor functions, with a high degree of susceptibility to autosuggestion or hypnosis.
- The idea that it was just depression or hysteria, a psychoneurosis or ‘all in the mind,’ he found not only ludicrous and cruel, but also dangerous, and his records contain several examples of suicide.
- Today we would call this an anxiety-caused psychoneurosis.
- This was Freud's definition of psychoneurosis: We limit how we live so that we can limit the amount of anxiety that we experience.
- His clinical diagnosis was ‘chronic and acute anxiety psychoneurosis with generalized phobic extensions.’