Crossword clues for neurosis
neurosis
- Obsession, not initially serious, developed
- Obsession with crime returning to engulf French capital?
- National currency is creating emotional disorder
- Disorder, note, or issue with rioting
- Therapist's concern
- Mental disorder
- Woody Allen film subject
- Resinous (anag) — unspecific personality disturbance
- Phobia, e.g
- Mild mental disorder
- Emotional disorder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neurosis \Neu*ro"sis\, n.; pl. Neuroses. [NL., fr. Gr. ney^ron nerve.]
(Med.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.
(Psychiatry) a mental or emotional disorder that affects only part of the personality, and involves less distorted perceptions of reality than a psychosis. As used in medicine, anxiety is a prominent characteristic, and the condition may be accompanied by psychosomatic symptoms. Phobias and compulsive behavior are common varieties.
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1776, "functional derangement arising from disorders of the nervous system," coined by Scottish physician William Cullen (1710-1790) from Greek neuron "nerve" (see neuro-) + Modern Latin -osis "abnormal condition." Used in a general psychological sense since 1871; clinical use in psychiatry dates from 1923.
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear
WordNet
n. a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction [syn: neuroticism, psychoneurosis]
[also: neuroses (pl)]
Wikipedia
Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations. Neurosis may also be called psychoneurosis or neurotic disorder.
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music.
Usage examples of "neurosis".
On a deeper level, neurosis can be understood as representing an interference with, an obstruction of, the normal integrative and self-regulating functions of mind.
The same instinctual components as in the perversions can be observed in the neuroses as vehicles of complexes and constructors of symptoms, but in the latter case they operate from the unconscious.
The neuroses have no psychical content that is peculiar to them and that might not equally be found in healthy people.
Those standards consequently encourage the retreat from reality and the generating of neuroses, without achieving any surplus of cultural gain by this excess of sexual repression.
We wanted to set up safeguards, though, so Scarle spent the night learning the depressive neuroses Hale said he could retreat into to protect his sanity if the going got rough.
All the same I found some books on neuroses and psychoses which made me think.
Not many women could have stayed the course, through his fits of depression, his neuroses and drinking bouts.
I understand my neuroses, my demons, my illnesses, my patterns in relationship.
Out there, they had faced, and been distorted by, their own inner demons, their own fears and frustrations and neuroses and psychoses, but this irrationality gave them great power.
Or it may be that the whole yarn comes from neuroses long abused by stuff like this.
Belaboring the accumulated neuroses of twenty years would solve nothing.
Have stories about your neuroses passed around Hollywood for years after you die?
But the thing remains, and perhaps it is one of the inevitable neuroses of war.
As Freud observed, communal neuroses will always be much harder to detect because they define an entire group, not an individual distinct from the group.
But the work on the feedback in anxiety neurosis was so brilliant and original it has become the standard reference and the jumping-off spot for all investigation in this field.