neuroses in English

noun

1

a relatively mild mental illness that is not caused by organic disease, involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behavior, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality. Compare with psychosis.

Freud presented the world of phantasy as a ‘storehouse’ that the patient can draw on to feed both his neurosis and his psychosis.

synonyms: mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder, psychoneurosis, psychopathy, obsession, phobia, fixation, neuroticism

noun

• mental illness, mental disorder, psychological disorder, psychoneurosis, psychopathy, obsession, phobia, fixation, neuroticism
• psychoneurosis, neuroticism

Use "neuroses" in a sentence

1. Children become absent-minded, suffering from neuroses and sleeplessness.

2. The result is that people poison themselves with all manner of neuroses, jealousies, and insecurities.

3. What we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.

4. 17 So what we think of as fate, is just two neuroses knowing they're a perfect match.

5. 5 Racism is interpreted as a form of displacement and objectification deriving from unhealthy neuroses and personality traits.

6. You get young people who appear to be socially confident, but inside they are a bundle of neuroses.

7. 1 What we think of as fate is just two neuroses knowing that they are a perfect match.

8. Frederick Stark, a Freudian psychoAnalyst with a private practice in Manhattan, catering to the neuroses of the rich, famous and miserable

9. Where the environment has changed, the symptoms of hysteria have been replaced by a multitude of character neuroses and psychosomatic manifestations.

10. “Just as allergists look first for allergies and psychiatrists probe for neuroses, hypoglycemia doctors are often predisposed to find a carbohydrate abnormality, and stop there.”

11. Results Clinical history indicated that the mental disorders were occurred in cases of brain contusion syndrome (2%), amnestic syndrome (4%) and neuroses (6%) were occurred. Sentencedict.com

12. All observational comedy relies on recognition, but by expressing the private neuroses of the digital age Ansari at once Communalizes the experience and disperses some of its attendant isolation.

13. A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always Cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an …

14. Talk about mental problems… Francis in new Interview: ‘Neuroses must be Caressed and given Maté’ Nelson Castro is a journalist with the Argentinian paper La Nación.Today he published excerpts of an interview he did with “Pope” Francis on Feb

15. De Botton's name in the mid-1990s, when he was in his mid-20s and published three novels…that elegantly fussed over and annotated the neuroses of romance…Love is the subject best suited to his obsessive Aphorizing, and in this novel he again shows off his ability to pin our hopes

16. Three problems are offered for further discussion: 1. to transform acting outs of training analysts standing under the pressure of the projections by training analysands onto the institute, into interpretation; 2. the difficulty to understand the varieties of the depressive position within the mental patterns of foreign civilisations; 3. the hypothetical effect of the analysis of character neuroses on the abstinence of training analysts and on the decision for lower frequency by former training analysands.