neurosis

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Etymology

From neuro- +‎ -osis.

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  • Rhymes: -əʊsɪs

Noun

neurosis (countable and uncountable, plural neuroses)

  1. (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, →DOI:
      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

  • The term is no longer part of mainstream psychiatric terminology in the United States, having been removed from the DSM in 1980, when its editors decided to provide descriptions of behavior rather than of hidden psychological mechanisms. It may still be found in texts on psychology and philosophy.

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References

  1. ^ “neurosis”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Horwitz and Wakefield (2007) The Loss of Sadness, Oxford, →ISBN
  3. ^ Peter Zachar, Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry (2000), page 202
  4. ^ Russon, John (2003) Human Experience: Philosophy, Neurosis, and the Elements of Everyday Life, State University of New York Press, →ISBN
  5. ^ Jacobson, Kirsten. 2006. "The Interpersonal Expression of Human Spatiality: A Phenomenological Interpretation of Anorexia Nervosa." Chiasmi International 8:157–74.

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /neuˈɾosis/
  • Rhymes: -osis
  • Syllabification: neu‧ro‧sis

Noun

neurosis f (plural neurosis)

  1. neurosis

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