psychoneurotic
- adjective
- /ˌsaɪkoʊnʊˈrɑtɪk/
- Archaic
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psiconeurótico
- They give him an identification card and it has got their picture on it, sealed in plastic and it's got your thumbprint and it says, this certifies that the undersigned Joe Dokes is a patient in outpatient therapy at a veterans' psychoneurotic clinic.
Examples
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This operation provides a therapeutic opportunity that I feel is quite important in regard to this particular girl, who suffers not only from an ovarian cyst but from a certain psychoneurotic condition as well.
Fiction book (1991) -
He claimed that it is common for psychoneurotic depression and suicidal fantasies and impulses to appear during adolescence.
Academic text (1997) -
It can only occur, even among soldiers in combat... ...if the individual has a psychoneurotic condition of long standing.
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One should not forget that, besides these pharmacologic or surgical methods of treatment, there is a wide area of psychotherapy, which should be applied to the patients in general, to say nothing of the psychoneurotic patients.
Academic text (1990) -
Leach argues against this view and against the corollary psychoanalytic move to conflate psychoneurotic behavior.
Academic text (1994) -
Combined with a fat-laden diet and sedentary lifestyle... could result in fatigue, psychoneurotic disorder... hyperparasympathetic echo effect, dark circles under the eyes.
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Busch and Johnson (26) gave 30 to 40 gamma of LSD-25 to twenty-one chronic psychotic patients (mostly schizophrenics) and later to some psychoneurotic patients.
Blog text (32) -
Following World War One, Sir Thomas Lewis (1919) described a group of soldiers with a similar cluster of symptoms; he called this the "soldier's heart or the effort syndrome." Oppenheimer (1918) referred to similar psychoneurotic and cardiac manifestations in soldiers of the First World War as "neurocirculatory asthenia."
Academic text (1990) -
Many veterans seek help at a psychoneurotic clinic to cope with their emotional disorders.
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Therapies for psychoneurotic conditions often focus on addressing underlying emotional issues.
Synonyms
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7.2
Being very worried about small things and unable to relax
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9.9
Relating to mental illness and unusual thoughts or behavior
Relating to mental illness when people have unusual thoughts or actions
Surface Forms
Morphology
psychoneurotic = psychoneurosis (semi-transparent) = psycho + neuro + tic
The adjective is formed from the technical noun 'psychoneurosis' plus '-tic', but the clinical meaning is not fully predictable for an average learner.
Etymology
Psychoneurotic combines psycho- 'mind' and neuro- 'nerve', seen in words like psychology and neurology. So something called psychoneurotic is about problems of the mind and the nerves, which is why it refers to emotional or nervous disorders.