neurosis

Preposition: of

• society: Many of the maladjustments and neuroses of modern society arose directly out of such conditions.

Possessives

• other: Feed each others ' neuroses among the better can bet all.
• man: For this man's neuroses, the world paid a dreadful price.
• group: Sometimes referred to as part of the group ' neuroses ' - characterized by anxiety, personal dissatisfaction and inappropriate but not psychotic behavior.

Converse of object

• have: We have neuroses; we are seeing an alarming increase in degenerative diseases at the peak of life.
• call: About half a century ago, the National Secular Society published a leaflet called Religious Neurosis.
• feed: There is little of the obsessive manipulation of money and place that feeds the educational neurosis of the American and British middle classes.
• suggest: Nesse humorously suggested that neuroses may be defined as a situation when we respond inappropriately to defection; somebody defects and we cooperate more.
• prevent: There is no reason to suppose that smoking prevents neurosis ( paras.

Adjective modifier

• obsessional: Another case of obsessional neurosis in which the disorder took the form of chronic doubt illustrates the value of hypnosis.
• traumatic: These have been explained as similar to traumatic neuroses caused by fright.
• own: Like too many of their ilk, they are simply projecting their own neuroses onto others.
• severe: Failure to attend to these details may easily set up a severe neurosis.
• collective: Or was it a collective neurosis at work, a modernist world trying to capture and tame the past?
• universal: The religious believer joins in similar communal rites, thus accepting the " universal neurosis " of religion.

Noun used with modifier

• anxiety: A reply to criticisms of my paper on anxiety neurosis.
• war: Freud wrote little about war neuroses yet the subject had a profound impact on his theory.
• situation: Situation neuroses are easy to ' fix ' at the basic level of shifting context.
• transference: There then emerges another clinical distinction: transference neurosis and narcissistic neurosis.
• compulsion: Few people have any conception of the misery which a compulsion neurosis may cause.