anxiety neurosis

noun

, Psychiatry.

anxiety neurosis

a relatively mild form of mental illness characterized by extreme distress and agitation, often occurring without any obvious cause

First recorded in 1900–05

Stekel,41 one of Freud's pupils, in an elaborate monograph, also lays stress on the sexual factor of the anxiety-neurosis.

On innumerable occasions we have learned that anxiety neurosis vanishes when the sexual misuse is abandoned.

I shall tell you then that we distinguish three pure forms of true neuroses: neurasthenia, anxiety neurosis and hypochondria.

She was tense and nervous, tied in the emotional knots of an anxiety neurosis.

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