Term
neurosis
An old general name for disorders in which a person is tormented by anxiety, fears or bodily complaints without any damage to an organ. Sidis understood neurosis as a disease of fear for oneself. Modern medicine uses other classifications.
Nervous Ills: Their Causes and Cure, Boris Sidis
Explained in
- Nervous Ills: Their Causes and Cure, Boris Sidis
- The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, Brianna Wiest
An old umbrella name for conditions in which anxiety or bodily symptoms appear with no damage to the organs. Jung saw neurosis as a substitute for legitimate suffering.
- I Hate You—Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus
An outdated general name for states in which contact with reality is kept: anxiety, obsessions, phobias. Modern classifications split it into separate diagnoses.