neurosis
English
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Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural neuroses)
- (pathology) A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.
- 1881, American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children: Volume 14:
- On inquiry it was found that this neurosis corresponded in time with the oncome of the catamenia.
- 1952, D. Maurice Allan, “Towards a Natural Teleology”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 49, number 13, :
- In the period from Spinoza to the end of the 19th century, the reading of design into nature received such devastating attacks from naturalists to non-naturalists alike that there developed an epistemological neurosis which Von Baer aptly termed “teleophobia.”
Usage notes
[edit]The term is no longer part of mainstream psychiatric terminology in the United States,[1] having been eliminated from the DSM in 1980, when its editors decided to provide descriptions of behavior rather than of hidden psychological mechanisms.[2][3] It may still be found in texts on psychology and philosophy.[4][5]
Synonyms
[edit]- psychoneurosis (dated)
Antonyms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]mental disorder
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References
[edit]- ^ “neurosis”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- ^ Horwitz and Wakefield (2007) The Loss of Sadness, Oxford, →ISBN
- ^ Peter Zachar, Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (2000), page 202
- ^ Russon, John (2003) Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life, State University of New York Press, →ISBN
- ^ Jacobson, Kirsten. 2006. "The Interpersonal Expression of Human Spatiality: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Anorexia Nervosa." Chiasmi International 8:157–74.
Anagrams
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[edit]neurosis f (plural neurosis)
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “neurosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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