psychoneurosis
- n a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
- He had been sent back by his divisional medical officer, tentatively diagnosed as a severe case of psychoneurosis.
- Murdock saw five advantages in encouraging the young folks (with "social control") to let their glands be their guides: 1) less guilt, hence less psychoneurosis; 2) an approved .
- Psychiatrists now generally consider alcoholism a disease, specifically a psychoneurosis.