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neurotic
has definitions from the fields of medicine,psychology,psychiatry
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[ adjective ] (psychiatry) characteristic of or affected by neurosis
Examples "neurotic disorder" "neurotic symptoms" Used in print (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)We pointed_out that emotional excitement may lead to psychosomatic_disorders and neurotic symptoms , particularly in certain types of personality , but it is also known that the reliving of a strong emotion ( `` abreaction '' ) may cure a battle neurosis . Since strong nociceptive stimuli produce an experimental neurosis during which the animals fail to eat in the experimental situation , Wolpe thought that he could utilize the feeding pain antagonism to inhibit the neurotic symptoms through feeding . In_view_of the important role which emotional_disturbances play in the genesis of neurotic and psychotic disorders and the parallelism observed between autonomic states and psychological behavior in several instances , it is further suggested that a hypothalamic imbalance may play an important role in initiating mental changes . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] affected with emotional disorder
Synonyms Used in print (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)The grocery the youth worked for soon tired_of his depressing effect on customers , most of whom were sufficiently neurotic without the threat of incubi , and let him go . |
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[ noun ] (medicine,psychology,psychiatry) a person suffering from neurosis
Synonyms Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)As I have been intimating , in the schizophrenic - and perhaps also in the dreams of the neurotic ; this is a question which I have no wish to take_up - condensation is a phenomenon in which one finds not a condensed expression of various feelings and ideas which are , at an unconscious level , well sorted_out , but rather a condensed expression of feelings and ideas which , even in the unconscious , have yet to become well differentiated from one another . Related terms |
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