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Neurosis   /nʊrˈoʊsəs/   Listen
Neurosis

noun
(pl. neuroses)
1.
A mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction.  Synonyms: neuroticism, psychoneurosis.



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... intelligence displayed; while the impairment of this structure, whether by congenital defect, mutilation, anaemia, decay, or appropriate poison, entails corresponding impairment of mental processes. Thus much being established, no reasonable man can hesitate in believing the relation between neurosis and psychosis to be a constant and concomitant relation, so that the step between this, and regarding it as a causal relation, seems indeed a small one. For, in all matters of physical inquiry, whenever we have proved a constant relation of concomitancy in a sequence A B, we call A the cause ...
— Mind and Motion and Monism • George John Romanes
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