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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.

This is Sideways country and best to leave your neurosis at home when visiting.

Few people have any conception of the misery which a compulsion neurosis may cause.

He used juice fasts and reported successful treatment of over 7,000 patients suffering from various psychic disorders such as schizophrenia and neurosis.

Or was it a collective neurosis at work, a modernist world trying to capture and tame the past?

The religious believer joins in similar communal rites, thus accepting the " universal neurosis " of religion.

About half a century ago, the National Secular Society published a leaflet called Religious neurosis.

There is little of the obsessive manipulation of money and place that feeds the educational neurosis of the American and British middle classes.

Another case of obsessional neurosis in which the disorder took the form of chronic doubt illustrates the value of hypnosis.

Failure to attend to these details may easily set up a severe neurosis.

Thus even gout was regarded as a" neurosis."These pathological principles of Cullen are contained in his First Lines of the Practice of Physic, an extremely popular book, often reprinted and translated.