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Example sentences for "neuroses"

Lexicographically close words:
neuronic; neurons; neuropathic; neuropathy; neuropterous; neurosis; neurotic; neurotics; neus; neuter
  1. Wulff of Odessa, who has very intelligently occupied himself with the neuroses of childhood.

  2. In the last analysis this deviation goes back to the fact that the neuroses are asocial formations; they seek to accomplish by private means what arose in society through collective labour.

  3. In one way the neuroses show a striking and far-reaching correspondence with the great social productions of art, religion and philosophy, while again they seem like distortions of them.

  4. In every one of the neuroses it is not the reality of the experience but the reality of the thought which forms the basis for the symptom formation.

  5. The psychology of the neuroses taught us that when wish feelings undergo repression their libido becomes transformed into anxiety.

  6. This is in entire accord with the findings of psychoanalysis, namely, that the nucleus of all neuroses as far as our present knowledge of them goes is the Oedipus complex.

  7. He therefore had the typical attitude of the male child to its parents which we call the 'Oedipus complex' in which we recognize the central complex of the neuroses in general.

  8. As is the case with numbers of neuroses and psychoses, we must for the present rest satisfied to observe symptoms; the mystery of their morbid anatomy will remain unsolved until our methods of investigation attain perfection.

  9. As long as we remain ignorant of the actual cause of the neuroses and psychoses, so long will the pathological anatomy of tic continue a sealed book.

  10. It becomes more and more apparent that arsenic is generally applicable to neuroses of the vagus.

  11. The evidence as to the hereditary character of neuralgia assumes a yet higher importance when supplemented by the facts respecting the alternations of neuralgia with other neuroses as the same individuals.

  12. Almost every one of the graver neuroses among patient's near relations.

  13. Blandford more particularly affirms concerning chronic mental diseases and the large number of neuroses that hover on the verge of insanity, has been most distinctly verified in my experience of the treatment of neuralgia.

  14. That this drug should prove useful in cardiac neuroses might readily be anticipated from its very great utility in many cases of asthma, a disease which, as already remarked, has a close relationship to the former.

  15. As Clouston has shown, neuroses and psychoses not requiring hospital treatment are by no means uncommon in the too sensitive child with hereditary taint.

  16. Christopher[179] of Chicago has shown, produce all possible neuroses to which the organism may be liable.

  17. Neuroses and psychoses are peculiarly frequent in childhood and youth.

  18. The first types of his neuroses are due to overstrain of certain territories related with memory, as contrasted with diminished use of the association fibres connecting these.

  19. Some interesting contributions have been recently made to this subject of gastric neuroses by Buchard, See, and Mathieu.

  20. The insistent and over-conscientious habit of mind plays so large a part in the so-called occupation neuroses that a brief discussion of their nature may here be in place.

  21. My friend's advice indicates the general experience with occupation neuroses including writer's cramp, for which every imaginable measure has been tried, only to be replaced by protracted abstinence from the use of the pen.

  22. This case is typical of the psycho-neuroses and we shall have occasion to refer to it again.

  23. As a matter of fact, the neuroses include all these varieties, and various shades and combinations of each.

  24. Williams in the little composite volume "Psychotherapeutics" says that the neuroses are based not on inherently weak nervous constitutions but on ignorance and on false ideas.

  25. This kind of mental and moral treatment has been sufficient to cure many neuroses of long standing.

  26. It is particularly interesting that even at that early day the reflex neuroses and complications that may arise from the irritability of the genito-urinary organs were so well understood.

  27. In the foregoing parts of this chapter, examples of reflex neuroses have been given to show the different effects that genital irritation will produce.

  28. In the course of the paper he says as follows: "Nor do I think these reflex neuroses from adherent prepuce wholly confined to the male sex.

  29. One of the most interesting and instructive papers that it was ever the fortune of the writer to listen to, touching on the subject of reflex nervous diseases or neuroses due to preputial adhesions, was one prepared by Dr.

  30. In children, the organization of a psychoneurosis is usually very simple, almost monosymptomatic, and in children too, we often discover these neuroses in the actual process of making.

  31. Analysis can be applied to the neuroses of children.

  32. But my remarks are equally applicable to a mentally disturbed individual's life history and to the genesis of abnormal psychic states, particularly those to be met with in the neuroses and psychoneuroses.

  33. Similarly, we may cite the digestive neuroses of adult life to explain the common refusal of food and the common nervous vomiting of the second year of life.

  34. With refusal of food and refusal of sleep they form the three common neuroses of early childhood.

  35. For our present purpose--the examination of some common neuroses of nursery life--it would be out of place to enter into a detailed consideration of this disorder of spasmophilia as a whole.

  36. Other neuroses may be studied in less detail, because they depend for their existence upon the same causes.

  37. As a method of treatment for neuroses of childhood, psycho-analysis is not only unsuccessful, it has dangers and produces ill effects which far outweigh any advantage which may be gained from it.

  38. Persistent and serious infection, however, is capable of producing nervous symptoms even in children who were not before nervous, and we must recognise that prolonged infection makes a favourable soil for neuroses of all sorts.

  39. There are two principal psychical injuries with poverty--fear and worry--and we must pass to their consideration as factors in the neuroses of some women.

  40. It would not be the place here to give details of cases, though every neurologist of experience is well aware of the neuroses that arise in marriage, among both men and women.

  41. A humorous review of a paper on the domestic neuroses was entitled "Kitchen Shell Shock.

  42. We know that the war neuroses which ravaged the German army have been recognized as being a protest of the individual against the part he was expected to play in the army; and according to the communication of E.

  43. Justifiable attempts have also been made to turn this antagonism between neuroses and group formation to therapeutic account.

  44. The psycho-analytic investigation of the psycho-neuroses has taught us that their symptoms are to be traced back to directly sexual tendencies which are repressed but still remain active.

  45. Everyone acquainted with the psychology of the neuroses will think of similar examples of less importance; but I hasten on to the application I have in view.

  46. In the psycho-analytic study of neuroses we have hitherto been occupied almost exclusively with ties that unite with their objects those love instincts which still pursue directly sexual aims.

  47. On the other hand it appears that where a powerful impetus has been given to group formation, neuroses may diminish and at all events temporarily disappear.

  48. Neuroses of the skin consist in augmentation of sensibility or hyperesthesia and diminution of sensibility or anesthesia.

  49. Lightning stroke and curious neuroses have been reported as causes.

  50. Individuals with neuroses are able to communicate normally or with mild emotional interference.

  51. The will to face nature's obligations of maternity straightforwardly is probably the greatest preventive against the psycho-neuroses that prove so seriously disturbing to a great many women.

  52. The most interesting phase of the successful treatment of these war neuroses for us was {264} the fact that the ultimate dependence was placed by the French on a system of management which was called torpillage.

  53. France and England after some time actually had to maintain some fifty thousand beds in their war hospitals mainly for functional nervous diseases, the war neuroses of many kinds.

  54. The condition developed in a young soldier as the result of a fall from a horse and his affection resembled very much some of the neuroses that came to be called, unfortunately, "shell shock" during the present war.

  55. The successful treatment of the war neuroses was all founded on the will and not on the mind.

  56. These pyschic neuroses group themselves into certain forms, often at an early age, and require special care and training from childhood, lest they develop into actual disease in later life.

  57. This is not only because neurotics represent a very large proportion of humanity, but we must consider also that the neuroses in all their gradations run in an uninterrupted series to the normal state.

  58. There is nothing in the unconscious streams of thought of the neuroses which would correspond to an inclination towards fetichism; a circumstance which throws light on the psychological peculiarity of this well understood perversion.

  59. The assumption of the pregenital organizations of the sexual life is based on the analysis of the neuroses and hardly deserves any consideration without a knowledge of the same.

  60. Psychoanalysis of the so-called transference neuroses (hysteria and compulsion neurosis) offers us here a reliable insight.

  61. It must be one of the ways in which the scientists induced neuroses in their experimental subjects.

  62. Scientists induce neuroses in all kinds of critters, by punishment and complex problems and--" "What is that?

  63. We should be unable to answer this question here if we had not penetrated considerably into the psychology of the neuroses and especially of hysteria.

  64. The psychotherapy of the neuroses is based on this difference.

  65. Rows, whose contributions to the study and treatment of the war neuroses and to the relation between psychic and physical reactions marked him as especially qualified to present the more advanced view-point of British psychiatry.

  66. The great characteristic of the neuroses is that they make people feel depressed when they first awake.

  67. It is generally admitted that a tendency toward insanity is inheritable, and it seems probable that this tendency as well as other neuroses may be intensified through double heredity.

  68. A study of war neuroses by the great Italian student of the endocrines, Pende, confirms this assumption.

  69. Medicine classes, rightly or wrongly, the hunger for ordure in the unknown categories of neurosis, and well it may, for nobody knows anything about neuroses except that everybody has them.

  70. He has most to do with the possessed whose neuroses have proved obdurate to hydrotherapeutic treatment.


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