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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Reason: the symptoms resemble those of many other common diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, 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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A very severe psychoneurosis followed, and her children and she were taken over by her parents and cared for.
From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham
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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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 Freud, Sigmund
It is through lack of courage and perseverance that we err in the treatment of these psychoneuroses.
From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
Yet, there is a more problematic species: those suffering from serious psychological problems, personality disorders, clinical phobias, psychoneuroses and the like.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel
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