Physicians use the term psychoneuroses to include a group of nervous disorders of so-called functional nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
In this way much needed provision for the treatment of persons suffering from the psychoneuroses and minor psychoses could be furnished. From Wordnik.com. [A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921] Reference
Science, like any other human endeavor, is susceptible to human psychoneuroses (Pathologies?) and these can even be spread like a contagion. From Wordnik.com. [Arguing in the Streets] Reference
The inauguration of the system of constant psychological observation had greatly reduced the probability of acute danger resulting from a watch engineer cracking up, but King was forced to admit that the system was not a success; there had actually been a marked increase in psychoneuroses, dating from that time. From Wordnik.com. [The Worlds Of Robert A Heinlein]
This would be the conclusion to which I would be forced if I started with any one of the psychoneuroses, whether it be hysteria or stuttering. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Of all the forms of nervousness proper, the psychoneuroses, hysteria is probably the one having its source mainly in the character of the patient. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
One might compare the psychoneuroses to a watch which needed oiling or cleaning, or merely a winding up, -- as against one in which a vital part was broken. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Housewife] Reference
But my remarks are equally applicable to a mentally disturbed individual's life history and to the genesis of abnormal psychic states, particularly those to be met with in the neuroses and psychoneuroses. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
To be sure it was tacitly understood, by those who could read between the lines, that this must be the belief of the Freudian school, since their conclusions were said to be true of all the psychoneuroses. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Indeed, work along this line was unnecessary, except in a purposively corroborative way, if the theories of Freud in the case of the whole group of psychoneuroses is once seized upon and accepted as the basic truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
Is it not plain that an understanding of the genesis and meaning of tics opens the gateway to the elucidation of the origin and significance of the psychoneuroses and functional psychoses -- of reaction types of various kinds?. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
The reasons for my entering into a criticism of this particular article by Dr. Coriat may be stated as follows: In the first place I am interested in the general problems of psychopathology, and of the psychoneuroses in particular. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
I may say that in the physical aspect of tics we have a specific somatic manifestation which, if explained, should, in a way, be the gateway toward the understanding of the many somatic symptoms which we find in the psychoneuroses and psychoses. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
We must also steer clear of the distinctions superconscious and subconscious which have found so much favor in the more recent literature on the psychoneuroses, for just such a distinction seems to emphasize the equivalence of the psychic and the conscious. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
It may be mentioned here, as is clearly appreciated from what has been said before, that there is an inter-relationship between the tics on the one hand and the symptoms which we discover in the psychoneuroses, psychoses and the mentally unstable on the other. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
I contend, further, but I shall not endeavor in this place to prove the correctness of my contention, that what is absolutely and without exception, fundamentally and essentially true of the psychoneuroses is likewise true, in different degree, of the psychopathologic acts of every day life. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
I have frequently wondered whether those of us who oppose the dissemination of the Freudian theories, at least as they are being and have been applied to the psychoneuroses and to psychopathology in general, have solved the problem as we should have solved it or fought the fight as we should have fought it. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
If we here attempted to penetrate more deeply into the psychic processes, we should first have to throw more light on the play of emotions between the foreconscious and the unconscious, to which, indeed, we are urged by the study of the psychoneuroses, whereas the dream itself offers no assistance in this respect. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
Comparative and animal psychology and the study of the reactions of children, of primitive races, and of the mentally disordered give us a splendid opportunity for studying it and unravelling the meaning of the many somatic and psychic manifestations which are exhibited to us in the psychoneuroses and psychoses and in tracing out the racial history of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
A very prominent rôle among the symptom-creators in the psychoneuroses. From Wordnik.com. [Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex] Reference
A happy therapeutic influence in the curable forms of the psychoneuroses?. From Wordnik.com. [Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners] Reference
Nonplussed by the erratic behavior of two seemingly normal people, Maigret’s research leads him “from neuroses to psychoses, from psychoses to psychoneuroses, from hysteria to paranoia …” He concludes in characteristically ambivalent fashion: “The result of studying the anomalies of human behavior, classifying and subdividing them, was that you ended not knowing what a man of sound mind was like any more. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret Hesitates]
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