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psychoneuˈrotic, n. and a. Psychol.
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + neurotic n. and a.]
A. n. A person suffering from a psychoneurosis.
1902Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) V. 28/1 In the psychoneurotic..the tendency toward imperfect mental development becomes more and more accentuated. 1924Proc. 7th Internat. Congr. Psychol. 148 Though a genius is frequently a psycho-neurotic, it would be quite untrue to say that the majority of psycho-neurotics tend towards genius. 1936Psychoanal. Rev. XXIII. 1 Thoughts of death and dying occur as every-day symptoms among psycho-neurotics of the anxiety, hysterical and obsessive types. 1972Zax & Cowen Abnormal Psychol. viii. 231 The psychoneurotic maintains good contact with reality.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by psychoneurosis.
1909Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. June–July 144 Every psycho-neurotic symptom is to be regarded as the symbolic expression of a submerged mental complex of the nature of a wish. 1938Jrnl. Aviation Med. IX. 177/2 When 50 per cent oxygen was given, the physiologic symptoms of the psychoneurotic patients were less marked. 1967Spectator 1 Dec. 679/1 When one looks at the incidence of psychoneurotic disorders..it is found that these also were commoner in..flat-dwellers. |
