psychoneurosis

Other forms: psychoneuroses

Definitions of psychoneurosis

1. noun

   a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
   synonyms: neurosis, neuroticism

   types:

   hysteria, hysterical neurosis

   neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions

   anxiety neurosis

   characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear

   anxiety hysteria

   a form of hysteria having features of both conversion disorder and anxiety neurosis

   hysterocatalepsy

   hysteria with cataleptic symptoms

   type of:

   disturbance, folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder

   (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness