- obsessional neurosis
- obsessional neurosis n an obsessive-compulsive disorder in which obsessive thinking predominates with little need to perform compulsive acts
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obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
obsessional neurosis
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compulsion neurosis — noun : obsessive compulsive neurosis * * * compulsion neurosis noun A disorder in which the patient suffers from compulsions and/or obsessions, depression, etc • • • Main Entry: ↑compulsion * * * compulsion neurosis, = obsessional neurosis. (Cf.… … Useful english dictionary
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Freudian Interpretations of Obsession and Compulsion — (from 1896) Aside from hysteria, obsession and compulsion constituted the core psychoneuroses (symptoms having an unconscious mechanism) that psychoanalysis sought to explain. Freud first articulated his concept of obsessional neurosis… … Historical dictionary of Psychiatry
