psychoneurotics

There is only one way to obtain a thorough and unerring solution of problems in the sexual life of so-called psychoneurotics (hysteria, obsessions, the wrongly-named neurasthenia, and surely also dementia præcox, and paranoia), and that is by subjecting them to the psychoanalytic investigations propounded by J. Breuer and myself in 1893, which we called the "cathartic" treatment.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

Every physician can furnish numerous case histories to substantiate the statement that continual sexual abstinence is prejudicial to the health and happiness of the man and woman, and is the causation of hundreds of semiderelicts and psychoneurotics.

The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks

The mental imperfection (Charcot) of the ticquer is a polymorphic psychic defect (Brissaud, Meige and Feindel) characterized by mental infantilism; for ticquers, like other psychoneurotics, are like big children.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

In most psychoneurotics the disease first appears after puberty following the demands of the normal sexual life.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

-- It is but just to state that the necessity of a general recognition of the tendency to inversion in psychoneurotics was first imparted to me personally by Wilh.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

The sexuality of psychoneurotics has perhaps been placed in a false light by the above discussions.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

The answer to this question was reached through an examination of the relations of the sexual life of psychoneurotics, a numerous group not very remote from the normal.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

By demonstrating the perverted feelings as symptomatic formations in psychoneurotics, we have enormously increased the number of persons who can be added to the perverts.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

Thus the manifestly great (though to be sure negative) tendency to perversion in psychoneurotics may be collaterally conditioned; at any rate, it is certainly collaterally increased.

Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex Sigmund Freud 1897

As a final word I cannot refrain from remarking that it will be a sad day for humanity and for society when psychoneurotics of whatever sort, stammerers, normal individuals with their psychopathologic acts of everyday life, and all the rest of us, particularly children, shall be subjected to Freudian psychoanalyses, with the numerous sexual theories and sexual implications with regard to everything of vital or human concern, as seen especially in family and social relations.

The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916