Neurotic disorders are probably best regarded as being the result of inappropriate early programming. Psychoanalysis has proved of little value in curing these conditions and Freud's speculations as to their origins are not now widely accepted outside Freudian schools of thought. These changes are helpful and explanatory but ignore the futility of euphemism. The general term, neurosis, is now called anxiety disorder hysteria has become a somatoform or conversion disorder amnesia, fugue, multiple personality and depersonalization have become dissociative disorders and neurotic depression has become a dysthymic disorder. In recent attempts at classification, the disorders formerly included under the neuroses have, possibly for reasons of political correctness, been given new names. Defence mechanisms against anxiety take various forms and may appear as PHOBIAS, OBSESSIONS, COMPULSIONS or as sexual dysfunctions. A neurosis essentially features anxiety or behaviour exaggeratedly designed to avoid anxiety. Attempts have been made to prohibit the term as pejorative and insulting but these have failed mainly because of a more complete and humane understanding of the subject and of the plight of neurotic sufferers. Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012 neurosis Any long-term mental or behavioural disorder, in which contact with reality is retained and the condition is recognized by the sufferer as abnormal.
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