Definition of Neurosis

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Definition of Neurosis
	Neurosis A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure. Related Definitions: Affection, Any, Appreciable, Change, Disease, Functional, Is, Nerve, Nervous, Of, Or, Structure, That, The, Without

Neurosis Quotations

We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
Paul Tillich

National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Doubt is to certainty as neurosis is to psychosis. The neurotic is in doubt and has fears about persons and things; the psychotic has convictions and makes claims about them. In short, the neurotic has problems, the psychotic has solutions.
Thomas Szasz

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell

Neurosis Translations

neurosis in German is Neurose
neurosis in Italian is neorosi
neurosis in Spanish is neurosis
neurosis in Swedish is neuros

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