neurosis

  • 11neurosis — ► NOUN (pl. neuroses) ▪ a relatively mild mental illness not caused by organic disease and involving symptoms such as depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, or hypochondria …

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  • 12neurosis — [noo rō′sis, nyoorō′sis] n. pl. neuroses [no͞o rō′sēz΄, nyo͞o rōsēz΄] [ModL: see NEURO & OSIS] 1. Psychiatry any of various mental disorders in which there is a symptom or group of symptoms that causes psychological pain or discomfort and may be… …

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  • 13Neurosis — Para otros usos de este término, véase Neurosis (desambiguación). El bebedor de Absenta de Viktor Oliva. El arte está plagado de referencias a la neurosis. El máximo exponente moderno tal vez sea Edvard Munch, aunque desde Carl Gustav Jung se… …

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  • 14Neurosis — This article is about the term in psychology. For the band, see Neurosis (band). Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable… …

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  • 15neurosis — Synonyms and related words: abulia, accident neurosis, anxiety hysteria, anxiety neurosis, arteriosclerotic psychosis, association neurosis, battle fatigue, blast neurosis, brain disease, certifiability, combat fatigue, compensation neurosis,… …

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  • 16Neurosis —    In his First Lines of the Practice of Physic, the first volume in the English translation of which was published in 1777, William Cullen introduced the term neuroses to mean diseases of the nervous system in which there was no obvious physical …

    Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

  • 17Neurosis — (Del gr. neuron, nervio + osis, enfermedad crónica.) ► sustantivo femenino SIQUIATRÍA Enfermedad nerviosa caracterizada por conflictos intrasíquicos que inhiben las conductas sociales, y por una conciencia dolorosa de los trastornos. IRREG.… …

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  • 18neurosis — s f sing y pl Afección psíquica causada por desórdenes del sistema nervioso o por algún conflicto que sucede en el inconsciente y tiene sus raíces en la historia infantil del sujeto (el deseo y la satisfacción); se caracteriza por trastornos… …

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  • 19Neurosis — A chronic disorder featuring irritability of the nervous system (nervousness) and characterized by anxiety and/or extreme behavior dedicated to avoid anxiety situations. * * * 1. A psychological or behavioral disorder in which anxiety is the… …

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  • 20neurosis — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ anxiety VERB + NEUROSIS ▪ have, suffer, suffer from PREPOSITION ▪ neurosis about …

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