It may spring from psychoneurotic causes, as in anorexia nervosa, a lack of appetite, primarily in young women, that may lead to extreme emaciation and even to death.
"The New Yorker is a worse madhouse than ever now," White confided to his older brother, "on account of the departure of everybody for the wars, leaving only the senile, the psychoneurotic, the maimed, the halt, and the goofy to get out the magazine".
Each war loses a generation; one era's maniac is, in Huston's time, suffering from a "psychoneurotic" disorder.
Leonard Wolf's "The Annotated Dracula," with six hundred notes, was the first, and it also did the job — which somebody had to do eventually — of picking through the psychoneurotic aspects of the novel.
Later our man found that he had been rejected as a bad psychoneurotic risk.
Toward the long-awaited end of the new semirevival of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," which opened on Sunday at the St. James Theater, an eminent psychiatrist proposes that what we have been watching was perhaps only "my own psychoneurotic fantasy".
Perhaps, during long-term ownership of the CR-Z, the psychoneurotic tug of war between eco and excess would eventually fade away and I'd just drive everywhere in Normal.
Latham was outraged at her admission and said she must have a psychoneurotic disorder.
A journalist who managed to pursue her medical degree while raising two kids, Pryor was called a left feminist with a psychoneurotic disorder who is "externalising personal feelings of distress and deficiency into the demonisation of children" by Latham in his column.
Leonard Wolf's "The Annotated Dracula," with six hundred notes, was the first, and it also did the job which somebody had to do eventually of picking through the psychoneurotic aspects of the novel.
