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Neurosis () is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian psychoanalytic theory to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often anxieties that have undergone repression. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related conditions more generally.

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Neurosis is a mental disorder stemming from past anxiety that has often been pushed out of conscious awareness, a concept mainly used today in Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The term is also used more broadly to describe anxiety-related mental conditions in general.

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Medical condition (new).name
Neurosis
Medical condition (new).synonyms
Psychoneuroses, neurotic disorder
Medical condition (new).field
Psychiatry, clinical psychology

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18 sections
Contents
  • History
  • A broad condition (1769–1879)
  • Breuer, Freud and contemporaries (1880-1939)
  • 1939–1952
  • DSM-I (1952–1968)
  • DSM-II (1968–1980)
  • DSM-III (1980–1994)
  • DSM-5 (2013–current)
  • Prevention
  • Etiology
  • Historic versions of the DSM and ICD
  • Psychoanalytic (Freudian) theory
  • Jungian theory
  • Horney's theory
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Neurosis () is a term mainly used today by followers of Freudian psychoanalytic theory to describe mental disorders caused by past anxiety, often anxieties that have undergone repression. In recent history, the term has been used to refer to anxiety-related conditions more generally.

The term "neurosis" is no longer used in psychological disorder names or categories by the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases (ICD) or the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). According to the American Heritage Medical Dictionary of 2007, the term is "no longer used in psychiatric diagnosis".

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