The phrase "as preoccupation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is a primary concern or focus in a particular context.
Example: "Her thoughts were consumed by her work, which she viewed as preoccupation rather than passion."
Alternatives: "as a fixation" or "as a concern".
Both extremes have in common certain core autistic features, such as preoccupation with detail, obsessional interests and difficulties in understanding another person's perspective.
Introversion was defined as preoccupation with one's inner world at the expense of social interactions and extroversion as a preference for social interplay for living out inner drives (collectively termed libido).
Restricted behavior is limited in focus, interest, or activity, such as preoccupation with a single television program, toy or game.
Evidence suggests, however, that retention tends to atrophy across the span of an average medical course and into the early postgraduate years, as preoccupation with clinical medicine predominates.
Nevertheless, certain motifs emerge -- desolate landscapes, displacement, the military, enforced silence -- as well as preoccupations with history, literature, classical music and European painting.
"The waiting, the questioning, the equivocating, the bafflement, the absurdity" — Perl counts these as preoccupations the artist and Samuel Beckett shared, and the poor souls whose fate it is to wait for Godot seem not all that different from the cast of Watteau's bewildering fêtes champêtres.
The severity of core features such as preoccupations with body image, weight, eating and exercising predicts greater resistance to treatment.
It's not scandalous to the Parisians because well before the 20th century, Paris and its environs welcomed lesbian love as a delectable preoccupation as far back as the art of Boucher, Fragonard, Le Brun, and Courbet.
Class, as Irish a preoccupation as British, threads through the script like a centre through a crowded midfield, represented by the rivalry between the Shannon club (working) and Garryowen (middle).
The ordinance rapidly resulted in the arrests of dozens of politicians and bureaucrats, a roundup regarded by some here as a welcome burst of vigilance and by others as a preoccupation with vendettas.
