psychoneurosis
noun
psychoneuroses
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pluralof psychoneurosis.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Most psychiatrists hold that the way to treat the minor mental ills classified as psychoneuroses* is by mental means alone.
From Time Magazine Archive
The psychoneuroses are generally considered milder mental illnesses than the psychoses, but some of them can be as stubbornly difficult to treat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Now, however, I want to draw your attention to the difference between the symptoms of the true neuroses and the psychoneuroses, the first group of which, the transference neurosis, has occupied us considerably.
From A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
