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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One talesman's medical certificate, which reported a psychoneurosis, set him frowning.
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But the static Nhpum Ga siege had broken their spirits�while amoebic dysentery, malaria, scrub typhus and psychoneurosis had put 1,970 men out of action.
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Few of them have heard of such fancy flyers' ailments as psychoneurosis.
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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 Brill, A. A. (Abraham Arden)
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