Examples of neurosis in the following topics:
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- Symptoms were not specified in detail for specific disorders, and many were seen as reflections of broad underlying conflicts or maladaptive reactions to life problems, rooted in a distinction between neurosis and psychosis.
- Around this time, a controversy emerged regarding the deletion of the concept of neurosis.
- Faced with enormous political opposition, the DSM-III was in serious danger of not being approved by the American Psychological Association's (APA's) board of trustees unless "neurosis" was included in some capacity; a political compromise reinserted the term in parentheses after the word "disorder," in some cases.
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- For example, Freud's concept of the Oedipus conflict, in which a son sees his father as competition for the affections of his mother, was thought to produce significant neurosis if not addressed in childhood.
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- Much of Freud's theory was based on his investigations of patients suffering from "hysteria" and neurosis.
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- He believed that a person who has a strong ego has a healthy personality and that imbalances in this system can lead to neurosis (what we now think of as anxiety and depression) and unhealthy behaviors.