psychoneurosis
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One talesman's medical certificate, which reported a psychoneurosis, set him frowning.
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To doctors, Custer's Last Stand has become a fascinating study in psychoneurosis.
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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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Doctors diagnosed this "mass psychoneurosis" as the result of a Caribbean malady, hlehhana, "the happy or laughing disease."
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It was a case of hysteria which had developed largely upon a basis of injury—there was a traumatic psychoneurosis.
From Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology by Healy, William
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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If these passages are capable of throwing light upon the intimate relations between the dream and the psychoneuroses, they have served the purpose for which I have taken them up.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Freud, Sigmund
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 Freud, Sigmund
Physicians use the term psychoneuroses to include a group of nervous disorders of so-called functional nature.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
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