psychoneuroticadj.n.

1887 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 1 203 Amadei and Tonnini..have prepared the following classification of systematized delusions or paranoia... II. Psycho-neurotic paranoia.

1909 Jrnl. Abnormal Psychol. 4 144 Every psycho-neurotic symptom is to be regarded as the symbolic expression of a submerged mental complex of the nature of a wish.

1927 Daily Express 4 July 10/4 You may become impatient because you do not realise that the person you are dealing with is what is called psycho-neurotic.

1967 Spectator 1 Dec. 679/1 When one looks at the incidence of psychoneurotic disorders..it is found that these also were commoner in..flat-dwellers.

1991 E. Rayner Independent Mind in Brit. Psychoanal. vi. 124 Freud and the early psychoanalysts used data drawn only from the treatment of adult psycho-neurotic patients and those suffering from narcissistic disorders.

1902 A. H. Buck Ref. Handbk. Med. Sci. (rev. ed.) V. 28/1 In the psychoneurotic..the tendency toward imperfect mental development becomes more and more accentuated.

1924 Proc. 7th Internat. Congr. Psychol. 148 Though a genius is frequently a psycho-neurotic, it would be quite untrue to say that the majority of psycho-neurotics tend towards genius.

1972 M. Zax & E. L. Cowen Abnormal Psychol. viii. 231 The psychoneurotic maintains good contact with reality.

1992 Jrnl. Mil. Hist. 56 534 After the experience of World War One, army doctors screened soldiers for symptoms and tried to keep the ‘psychoneurotics’ (a very poorly defined condition) out of combat roles.