obsessive neurosis

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• Neurosis —    In his First Lines of the Practice of Physic, the first volume in the English translation of which was published in 1777, William Cullen introduced the term neuroses to mean diseases of the nervous system in which there was no obvious physical …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• obsessive-compulsive disorder — n a psychoneurotic disorder in which the patient is beset with obsessions or compulsions or both and suffers extreme anxiety or depression through failure to think the obsessive thoughts or perform the compelling acts abbr. OCD called also… …   Medical dictionary

• obsessive-compulsive — [əb ses′iv kəm pul′siv] adj. designating or of a mental disorder, esp. a neurosis, characterized by compulsive thoughts or actions, irresistible urges, etc., that are unwanted and uncontrollable and interfere with work, social activity, and… …   English World dictionary

• neurosis — ► NOUN (pl. neuroses) ▪ a relatively mild mental illness not caused by organic disease and involving symptoms such as depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, or hypochondria …   English terms dictionary

• obsessive-compulsive — I noun a person with obsessive compulsive characteristics • Derivationally related forms: ↑obsessive compulsive disorder • Hypernyms: ↑neurotic, ↑psychoneurotic, ↑mental case II adjective …   Useful english dictionary

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder —    Physicians and non physicians alike have always recognized the existence of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behavior. Across the ages, examples are common in religion of praying compulsively or dwelling obsessively on salvation or damnation …   Historical dictionary of Psychiatry

• Neurosis — This article is about the term in psychology. For the band, see Neurosis (band). Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable… …   Wikipedia

• Neurosis — A chronic disorder featuring irritability of the nervous system (nervousness) and characterized by anxiety and/or extreme behavior dedicated to avoid anxiety situations. * * * 1. A psychological or behavioral disorder in which anxiety is the… …   Medical dictionary

• obsessive-compulsive — Having a tendency to perform certain repetitive acts or ritualistic behavior to relieve anxiety, as in o. neurosis ( e.g., a compulsive, ritualistic need to wash one s hands many dozens of times per day). * * * obsessive compulsive adj relating… …   Medical dictionary

• obsessive-compulsive disorder — Mental disorder in which an individual experiences obsessions or compulsions, either singly or together. An obsession is a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an unreasonable idea or feeling (such as of being contaminated through shaking… …   Universalium

• neurosis — n.; pl. neuroses any long term mental or behavioural disorder in which contact with reality is retained and the condition is recognized by the sufferer as abnormal: the term and concept were originated by Freud. A neurosis essentially features… …   The new mediacal dictionary