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Definition of Obsessions

1. obsession [n] - See also: obsession

Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsessions

Literary usage of Obsessions

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"The authors of the ' Report on obsessions' before the International Medical Congress in Moscow, in 1897, develop their theses in the present volume into a ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1903)
"Evolution of obsessions and their Passage into Delusions.—The author considers that the opinion generally entertained in France, that obsession does not ..."

3. Hypnotism and treatment by suggestion by John Milne Bramwell (1910)
"(2) obsessions are of very frequent occurrence; at least half of the patients ... (4) I know of no single instance in which obsessions have been relieved or ..."

4. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"obsessions and preoccupations are in themselves capable of neutralizing to some ... Very frequently, moreover, obsessions and preoccupations act by the ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1903)
"Imperative Conceptions and obsessions, their Affinities to Insane Delusions. A. PARIS. 2. Insanity, Communicated and Simultaneous. ..."

6. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"obsessions and Psychasthenia.1 In this new work, which, like its predecessors on hysteria and on fixed ideas, deals with large groups of so-called neuroses, ..."

7. A Text-book of Psychiatry for Physicians and Students by Leonardo Bianchi (1906)
"CHAPTER IX FIXED IDEAS AND obsessions THE malady of fixed ideas, ... With regard to the nature of the obsessions, I could not give a clearer notion of them ..."

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