| 释义 |
psychoneuˈrosis Psychol.
Also with hyphen.
[f. psycho- + neurosis.]
Any of various functional nervous disorders attributed to emotional or psychological causes, often accompanied by manifestations of anxiety, and distinguished from a psychosis by the maintenance of contact with the external world; also, in psychoanalytic theory, a mental disorder attributed to repressed unconscious conflict or fantasy (as distinguished from an ‘actual’ neurosis, attributed to anxiety caused by present frustration of sexual drive).
1883Clouston Clin. Lect. Mental Dis. i. 18 The insane temperament or neurosis insana, or, to keep up uniformity of the classification, Psychoneurosis. 1903W. James in Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. XVIII. 32 The parasitic ideas of psycho-neurosis, and the fictitious personations of planchette-writing and mediumship. 1913E. Jones Papers on Psycho-Anal. v. 125 Freud has pointed out that it is necessary to separate the ‘actual neuroses’ from the ‘psychoneuroses’. Ibid. 129 We next come to the psychoneuroses proper... The symptoms result from the activity of certain unconscious mental processes..which the patient is unable spontaneously to recall to his memory. 1924J. Riviere et al. tr. Freud's Coll. Papers II. xxi. 253 There always remains as a common feature in the ætiology both of the psychoneuroses and the psychoses the factor of frustration. 1938Jrnl. Aviation Med. IX. 177/2 McFarland and Barach found that patients, on whom a diagnosis of psychoneurosis had been made, appeared to be more severely affected at an atmosphere of 10 per cent oxygen than were the normal controls. 1948Sci. News VIII. 109 The conditions which benefit most from group psychotherapy are the psychoneuroses—particularly anxiety states and reactive depressions. 1959J. Strachey Freud's Compl. Wks. XX. 79 In these cases—in the psychoneuroses—the reason for the accumulation of undischarged excitation was a psychological one: repression. But what followed was the same as in the ‘actual’ neuroses. 1972Zax & Cowen Abnormal Psychol. viii. 231 The one feature common to all forms of psychoneurosis is the presence of anxiety. Ibid. 232 In DSM-I (1952) six types of psychoneuroses were delineated: anxiety reaction; conversion reaction; dissociative reaction; phobic reaction; obsessive-compulsive; and depressive reaction. 1977Miller & Swift Words & Women iv. 67 Hysteria now refers in technical use to a specific psychoneurosis that may affect anyone, male or female. |