psychoneurosis
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psychoneuroses
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He enlisted in the Coast Guard in World War II, but he got into so much trouble that he was treated for psychoneurosis in a hospital and given a medical discharge.
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He had been sent back by his divisional medical officer, tentatively diagnosed as a severe case of psychoneurosis.
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Few of them have heard of such fancy flyers' ailments as psychoneurosis.
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Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, psychoneurosis.
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The ordinary symptoms of the psychoneurosis are present.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
The psychoneuroses are generally considered milder mental illnesses than the psychoses, but some of them can be as stubbornly difficult to treat.
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Most psychiatrists hold that the way to treat the minor mental ills classified as psychoneuroses* is by mental means alone.
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Only later, under the psychoneuroses, would psychoanalysis have been discussed as the most important technical aid for insight into these conditions.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
In the symptoms of the psychoneuroses we have recognized the expression of a disturbance in psychic processes.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
Dr. Coriat has permitted himself to be deluded by the Freudian sexual theories and their application to the psychoneuroses, and in this special instance to stammering.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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