Definition of "psychoneurosis" []

• Neurosis. No longer in scientific use. (noun)

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• "Technically the term psychoneurosis refers to a distinctive, although mild, type of patterned behavioral deviation."
• "A discharge for psychoneurosis was the common result of such missives."
• "But psychoneurosis is the product of the patient, however much he needs and utilizes his brain to bring it about, while the musical impingement that visited me followed a physical event, an external interference with the blood supply to my brain."