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Definition of Anxiety neurosis
1. Noun. Characterized by diffuse anxiety and often somatic manifestations of fear.
Medical Definition of Anxiety neurosis
1. Chronic abnormal distress and worry to the point of panic followed by a tendency to avoid or run from the feared situation, associated with overaction of the sympathetic nervous system. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anxiety Neurosis
Literary usage of Anxiety neurosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the nervous system: A Text-book of Neurology and Psychiatry by Smith Ely Jelliffe, William Alanson White (1917)
"anxiety neurosis.—The anxiety neurosis was separated from the general group of
actual ... The name anxiety neurosis indicates that the symptoms all group ..."
2. Morbid Fears and Compulsions: Their Psychology and Psychoanalytic Treatment by Horace Westlake Frink (1918)
"The latter term, as we have said before, now includes the condition called the
anxiety neurosis, i. er, ..."
3. An Outline of abnormal psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1921)
"Neurasthenia and the anxiety neurosis, I. Neurasthenia — Symptomatology. ...
The anxiety neurosis is a symptom complex separated by Freud from neurasthenia, ..."
4. Papers on Psycho-analysis by Ernest Jones (1918)
"The symptoms of the anxiety neurosis seem to have a rather more complicated
origin : on the one hand they represent the normal physiological accompaniments ..."
5. The Elements of Practical Psycho-analysis by Paul Bousfield (1922)
"anxiety neurosis. . ft. Neurasthenia. Here one must state that in spite of ...
Indeed, one might almost state that the anxiety neurosis is included in the ..."
6. Diseases of the nervous system: For the General Practitioner and Student by Alfred Gordon (1913)
"F. anxiety neurosis A state of "anxiety" is found in every form of ... He termed
it "anxiety neurosis." He places it among the psychoneuroses. ..."
7. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"Clinically, the cases of anxiety-neurosis are often seen mixed with anxiety derived
... Freud ha* already in his work on anxiety-neurosis pointer! out the ..."
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