A bad temper is a neurotic taint, and it commonly is a first step toward alcoholism.
In the neurotic variety of dysmenorrhoea pain often persists after the menstrual flow has set in, but in inflammatory dysmenorrhoea the flow relieves the pain or removes it.
These unfortunate accidents have become so common now that special care must be taken with regard to children of neurotic heredity.
The mental perturbance only rarely reaches the degree of actual mania, and then is, perhaps, equally dependent upon numerous other causes acting in a neurotic individual.
If a person is disposed to hysteria by neurotic inheritance, idleness, sedentary habits, vicious practices, excessive development of the emotions, any affection of the uterus or its appendages will greatly aggravate the outbreaks.
The conditions that bring about hysteria are hysteria in a parent, or insanity, alcoholism, or some similar neurotic taint in an ancestor.
The fact is worth investigation whether or not a liquor dealer who never drinks alcohol, but who lives for years in the presence of volatilised alcohol, has much of the alcoholic degeneracy and a tendency to beget neurotic children.
In this case the family history showed marked neurotic tendencies on both sides, and a brother had displayed a tendency to regularly spaced attacks of alcoholism about every six weeks, and finally became absolutely uncontrollable.
It would be tedious to relate all the neurotic symptoms this patient had exhibited since 1864, when she was first attacked with paralysis of the left arm.
This is difficult to describe, but it was one of confirmed illness of a marked neurotic type.
The striving after poetic fame does not remain with our poet within the usual, normal limits but becomes much more a peculiar neurotic characteristic.
Then yourneurotic anxiety presumably signifies the opposite, the wish that your mother shall come to you again.
Thus, undue mental labor, gluttony, alcoholic intemperance, debauchery, and other indulged evil propensities in the parent come to be developed into definite neurotic taint and tendency in the offspring.
The theory that gastric ulcer is of neurotic origin has also been advocated.
Many ministers who became his pupils treated like him with skillful combination of religion and hypnoid influences the spasms, catalepsies, neurasthenias, paralysis, and deafness, of neurotic patients.
Many neurologists are inclined to hold that neurasthenia demands a special predisposition and is therefore dependent upon a neurotic constitution of the brain itself.
He may develop to the patient the modern theories of the origin of neurotic disturbances, all with entire sincerity and yet all shaped in a way which gives to the special case an especially harmless appearance.
It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine (chiefly in the form of the sulphate) as a powerful neurotic stimulant.
A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name ofglonion.
It is a peculiar poisonous neurotic and intoxicant, and consists of a mixture of several neutral substances.
Of the neurotic Gorky there is naught to be said that is encouraging.
The condition is probably ofneurotic origin and tends to recur.
In some cases the disease is distinctlyneurotic in character, in others no cause can be assigned.
The condition is to be considered as probably of neurotic origin.
Debility is commonly the cause in general hyperidrosis; the local forms are probably neurotic in origin.
It is characterized by cutaneous symptoms, at first upon exposed parts, of an erythematous, desquamative, vesicular and bullous character, and by general constitutional disturbance of a markedly neurotic type.
A neurosis is the outcome of repression; the neurotic is a person whose libido or life force is bottled up; he can be cured only by letting his pent up emotions free.
To some of them the neurotic patient was a swinger of the lead, a malingerer.
It is theneurotic who leads the world; he is a rebel and he is an idealist.
They had never heard of the new psychiatry, and the neurotic was a strange creature to them.
We see the same sort of mechanism in the neurotic patient; she fears her own sex impulses, and because she dare not admit her sex wishes into consciousness she projects her fear on to dogs or mice or rats.
The mother had been tall, blonde, rather wildly handsome, with the look of one of those neurotic queens who suppress under a proud manner many psychic disturbances.
In the present woman he discerned the same lovely and neurotic countenance, the same traces of mingled fastidiousness and desperation, the same promises of exceptionally passionate and tragic happenings.
Faulty psychic actions, dreams and wit are products of the unconscious mental activity, and like neurotic or psychotic manifestations represent efforts at adjustment to one's environment.
Thus this second analogy between the savage and the neurotic may allow us to surmise how much in the relation of the savage to his ruler arises from the infantile attitude of the child to its father.
In his dreams the normal person is constantly reviving his childhood, and the neurotic or psychotic individual merges back into a sort of psychic infantilism through his morbid productions.
The neurotic therefore acts as if he were altruistic, while primitive man seems egotistical.
Deeper investigation showed conclusively that a person might becomeneurotic if subjected to certain environments, and that there was no definite dividing line between normal and abnormal.
But whereas dreams, witticisms, and faulty actions give evidences of inner conflicts which the individual overcomes, the neurotic or psychotic symptom is the result of a failure and represents a morbid adjustment.
The neurotic symptoms were no longer imaginary troubles the nature of which one could not grasp, but were conceived as mental and emotional maladjustments to one's environment.
Indeed, one may venture the assertion that if the origin of guilty conscience could not be discovered through compulsion neurotic patients, there would be no prospect of ever discovering it.
It is a law of neurotic diseases that these obsessive acts serve the impulse more and more and come nearer and nearer to the original and forbidden act.
Theydon was no neurotic boy, whose surcharged nerves were liable to crack in a crisis demanding some unusual measure of self-control.
Never before have I discovered a neurotic streak in you, Frank," she said, after she had obtained a couple of letters for Miss Beale, and they were en route again.
It will be observed that in each case there was, at the least, an organic neurotic basis for suggestion and seduction to work on.
In the neurotic these homosexual germs are more highly developed.
I am indebted for this case to a well-known English alienist, who remarks that the patient is fairly healthy to look at, but with neurasthenia and tendency to melancholia, and neurotic temperament.
Among her brothers and sisters, one is ofneurotic temperament and another is inverted.
Her entire body seemed in motion, surrendered to a neurotic and undirected energy.
George, prepared as he had been, was surprised by the haggard, flushed countenance, and the neurotic symptoms, nearly uncontrollable.
So five more silly, neurotic and, of course, wealthy women were to be initiated into the mysteries of the mock saint's religion.
Nevertheless, the event more than ever impressed upon the neurotic Empress that Grichka was possessed of some mysterious and divine influence.
Truly, that meeting with the Tsar's valet Tchernoff was quite as fateful to Russia as the meeting with the neurotic spiritualistic Empress herself.
Rasputin at last returned, forced to do so by the determined attitude of the Empress, who without doubt was suffering from serious religious mania, as well as an acute form of neurotic heart disease.
We know well that the so acquired mental weakness furnishes effective support for the outbreak of a neurotic disease.
Let us expressly emphasize that we have never considered Leonardo as a neurotic or as a "nervous person" in the sense of this awkward term.
We no longer believe that health and disease, normal and nervous, are sharply distinguished from each other, and that neurotic traits must be judged as proof of general inferiority.
It was not in his experience that a healthy young Hercules, sound as a bell, without spot or blemish, should behave like an anaemic, neurotic girl.
Was he a hysterical, neurotic coward, after all--a wretched decadent?
Operations and sanatoria, health-resorts and specialists have not restored, and she lives, a neurasthenic mother of two neurotic children.
This neurotic intensity was not of the cheap helter-skelter, melodramatic sort; there was a splendid veneer of control.
There must have been a neurotic taint, as expressed in Aunt Fannie's asthma.
Those who are familiar with the pre-eminent qualities as a neurotic of electricity, will not be surprised to be told of the beneficial effects in the condition under consideration of electric baths.
For that reason, the two go together, and the neurotic type of man too often combines the two.
This habit not only produces an extreme neurotic condition, but changes the entire temperament of a person.
For him the East is the land of dreams and melting softness, a far-off health-resort for neurotic patients, where one lies at ease in the sun and forgets the excitements of Paris.
This brings to mind certain facts met with from time to time in our neurotic cliniques.
