4 sentences with “neurosis”

Later, central to Sigmund Freud's conception was the theory of neurosis; he agreed with Nietzsche, for whom neurosis was "the modern disease" par excellence;

In some people, however, there is a tendency to transform every experience into a situation of risk or danger, which gives rise to the so-called phobic neurosis.

Psychotherapy seeks to uncover the causes that led to the onset of neurosis at an early age, and therefore requires a great deal of commitment on the part of the patient.

Freudian theory saw neurosis as a psychic mechanism similar to that of errors or "failed acts", and to that of the dream: the fruit of a repression of infantile impulses - libidinal or sexual - for which reason it would be fundamental in therapy to be able to access the repressed neurotic contents.