psychoneurosis
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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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An estimated 2,500 women in San Francisco alone have undergone treatment for psychoneurosis during the past 18 months.
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Few of them have heard of such fancy flyers' ailments as psychoneurosis.
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One talesman's medical certificate, which reported a psychoneurosis, set him frowning.
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In a pronounced case of psychoneurosis we seldom find the development of one single perverted impulse; usually there are many and regularly there are traces of all perversions.
From Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill
Most psychiatrists hold that the way to treat the minor mental ills classified as psychoneuroses* is by mental means alone.
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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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Besides, there are in this world of confusion physicians who object to any distinctions between manifestations, any emphasis of clinical detail, who do not even recognize the separation of true neuroses and psychoneuroses.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
This would be the conclusion to which I would be forced if I started with any one of the psychoneuroses, whether it be hysteria or stuttering.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
What are called the psychoneuroses, that is, the neurotic affections dependent on the state of mind, may simulate almost any of the organic conditions and may seem to be serious diseases.
From Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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