Usage Note:The wordneurosishas been used since the 1700s, when it referred broadly to a"nervous disease."With the advent of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis in the late 1800s,neurosisevolved to refer to mental disorders resulting from internal psychological conflicts rather than from neurological ...
Freud (1896) considered the presence or absence of affect to distinguish two forms ofobsessive neurosis. A distinction was drawn between the emergence of a memory into consciousness, in the form of an obsessional idea, and the emergence of an obsessive affect of self-reproach. ...
anxiety neurosisan obsolete term (Freud) for conditions now reclassified aspanic disorderandgeneralized anxiety disorder. hysterical neurosisa former classification of mental disorders, now divided intoconversion disorderanddissociative disorders. obsessive-compulsive neurosisformer name forobsessive-compulsive diso...
2025 Freud believed complete elimination of neurosis was neither possible nor desirable. Dave Winsborough, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 The concepts minted in the early 1960s by the late French literary critic and philosopher René Girard explain the pathologies of the smartphone age as elegantly as Freud...
In this chapter, concerned with normal suffering, and building on the foundation of Freud's classical psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytical-sociological framework is constructed for the definition and understanding of existential hardship and suffering in normal daily life. We will begin with the ...
anxiety neurosisan obsolete term (Freud) for conditions now reclassified aspanic disorderandgeneralized anxiety disorder. hysterical neurosisa former classification of mental disorders, now divided intoconversion disorderanddissociative disorders. obsessive-compulsive neurosisformer name forobsessive-compulsive diso...
Usage Note:The wordneurosishas been used since the 1700s, when it referred broadly to a"nervous disease."With the advent of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis in the late 1800s,neurosisevolved to refer to mental disorders resulting from internal psychological conflicts rather than from neurological ...
Usage Note:The wordneurosishas been used since the 1700s, when it referred broadly to a"nervous disease."With the advent of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis in the late 1800s,neurosisevolved to refer to mental disorders resulting from internal psychological conflicts rather than from neurological ...
Part of Freud’s radical insight is that people can have opposite feelings toward the same object or phenomenon at the same time; this is what ambivalence means. It is sometimes understood that one can love and hate the same person but what is less understood is that fear and fearlessness,...
Functional versus organic: Historically, it was always apparent that certainmental disorderswere more obviously associated with gross (i.e., obvious) pathology of the centralnervous system(CNS) than others. In the eras of Hughlings Jackson, Broca, Wernicke, Charcot, Janet, Freud, Kraepelin, Alzhe...