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Neurosis (pl.: neuroses) is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian thinking to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often that...

Narcissistic neurosis is a term introduced by Sigmund Freud to distinguish the class of neuroses characterised by their lack of object relations and their...

trauma of war. Also known as "combat fatigue", "battle fatigue", or "battle neurosis", it has some overlap with the diagnosis of acute stress reaction used...

the Aetiology of the Neuroses 1896 Further Remarks on the Neuro-Psychoses of Defence 1898 Sexuality in the Aetiology of the Neuroses 1899 Screen Memories...

Jung's theory of neurosis is based on the premise of a self-regulating psyche composed of tensions between opposing attitudes of the ego and the unconscious...

view is limited to those who are free from neuroses and appears to be shared by all people free of neuroses. Reich distinguished between complete release...

available previously: Transference neuroses correspond to a conflict between the ego and the id; narcissistic neuroses, to a conflict between the ego and...

symptoms occurred in soldiers who had no family or personal history of neuroses, and who were perfectly fit”. In 1970 Colin P. McEvedy and Alanson W. Beard...

During World War I, hysterical men were diagnosed with shell shock or war neurosis, which later went on to shape modern theories on PTSD. The notion of male...

tyranny, that psychic masochism is 'the life-blood of neurosis' and is in fact the basic neurosis. I still subscribe to my dictum, 'Man's inhumanity to...

of all neurosis and unhappiness is a psychologically disturbed mother who neglects her motherly duty in some way and plants additional neuroses in the...

conditions associated with dissociation, including "shell shock" or "war neuroses" during World War I, were subsumed under these diagnoses. It was argued...

the development of a neurosis. Frantz Fanon, a Martinician writer and analyst whose work focused on the pathologies and neuroses produced through European...

primarily associated with French psychiatrist Pierre Janet, who divided the neuroses into the psychasthenias and the hysterias. (He discarded the then common...

company called Neurosis to a T(ee), which designs and sells slogan-covered T-shirts for women. The slogans poke fun at female worries and neuroses, often relating...

compile a detailed theory of neurosis, with data from her patients. Horney believed neurosis to be a continuous process—with neuroses commonly occurring sporadically...

structure which can assist in social adaptation but also be the cause of neurosis. According to sexual difference, a positive Oedipus complex refers to the...

they would experience anxiety that would persist into adulthood as a neurosis, a functional mental disorder. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) observed that...

only public use of the terms was in his paper "The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis" (1924), where he points out that 'expedient, normal behaviour...

sketches Stekel W. (1922). The Homosexual Neuroses Stekel W. (1922). Bi-sexual love; the homosexual neurosis (2003 reprint: Bisexual Love. Fredonia) Stekel...