Neuroses are behavioral disorders brought about by emotional tension resulting from frustration, conflicts, repression or insecurity. They are characterized by anxiety, inability, rigid or repetitive behavior, egocentricity, hypersensitivity, immaturity, and somatic complaints. Common neuroses include anxiety, hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, and psychasthenia. Psychasthenia involves unreasonable fears, obsessions, and compulsions. Specific phobias, obsessions, and compulsions are provided as examples.

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Group 8 Presentation:
Carmella Anne Garcia
Shara Jane Clayton
Christina Sabangan

2. • Plural form: Psychoneuroses or Neuroses.
• Prefix – “Psycho” was added some decades
later when it became clear that mental and
emotional factors were important in the
etiology of these disorder
• Behavioral disorder brought about by
emotional tension, resulting from
frustration, conflicts, repression or
insecurity.
• Based on emotional conflict.

3. 1. Anxiety
2. Inability
3. Rigid or Repetitive behavior
4. Egocentricity
5.
Hypersensitivity

4. 6. Immaturity
7. Somatic Complaints
8. Unhappiness
9. Unconsciously motivated
behavior

5. 1. Predisposing, possibly constitutional
factors.
2. Childhood development patterns.
3. Life situation that precipitated the
reactions
4. Cultural
Factors.

6. I. Anxiety
• Reaction is built on lifetime pattern of
insecurity and immaturity.
• were always tense, worried, easily upset
and preoccupied with future calamities.

7. 1.
Neurasthenia
• Loss of interest in the surrounding
or life situation severe symptoms
• Along with headaches, backaches,
dizzy, spells, bilious attack and
indigestion.
• Lacking of energy, complaints of
being tired, chronic fatigability,
chronic irritability & inability to
concentrate.

8. Example:
A middle-aged wife of a successful businessman
who develops vague aches & pains, marked
feelings of fatigue & insomnia to extent that she
is bedridden for several weeks but for which
medical examinations discussed no organic
pathology. Psychological diagnosis indicates
that among other frustration & conflicts, she
had been greatly disturbed for year. Because of
her husband’s lack of affection. When she
became bedridden & sick, her husband
expressed considerable sympathy and spent
more time with her. Her disabilities were used
as her mechanism for securing the desired

9. 2. Hypochondria
• suffering of being greatly
exaggerated, isolated and
immature, self-centered
personality.
Example
:
1. Story of An Emo
Kid
2. Ovreprotective
parents

10. People whose parents were over protective,
who showed too much concern about their
child’s health are prone to Hypochondrial
reactions. Feelings of inadequacy and lack of
fulfillment also predispose some people to
this type of reaction and like the neurasthenic
type. Secondary gains accrue to the patient
through attention-getting efforts.

11. II. Hysteria
• Disorder without unidentifiable physical
pathology one or more symptoms usually due
to organic limbs, intense aches and pains,
deafness, blindness, loss of voice, continuous
vomiting, head or hand tremors, anesthesia
where he/she becomes insensitive to pain and
cannot feel a needle or burn. He/she may
develop fits, seizures or faint.
• Mood swings, dissociate reactions, loses
his/her identity to solve emotional crisis.

12. 1. Amnesia
• Literally means
“Forgetting”
• Disorder which the individual
cannot recall his/her name &
remembers little or nothing
Types of Amnesia: the past.
about
a. Anterograde – inability to retain information which has just
been seen or read.
b. Retrograde – inability to recall any event which took place
during a certain period of time.
c. Localized – inability to recall events which are related to a
particular situaton

13. 2. Fugue
• an amnesia state. It may last for a
few hours, days or months. It is an
escape mechanism from highly
distressful situation.
3. Somnambulism
• Sleep walking is a dreamlike
state where the patient walks
about and carries on certain
activities which are not
remembered later.

14. 4. Multiple
Personality form of hysteria.
• dramatic
Shifting from 1 personality to
another last for from a few
hours to several months or years.
It develops 2 or more separate
and different personalities.

15. III. Psychastenia
• a psychoneurotic condition
accompanied by a vast range of mental
& emotional symptoms which cannot be
controlled.
Reasons and Symptoms:
• unreasonable
dreads/phobias, obsession and
• compulsion
unreasonable elation, constant
depression or over inhibition.

16. 1. Phobias
• irrational or exaggerated fear of
an object, person act or situation
and it may develop towards any
imaginable aspect of the
environment.
Characteristics:
a. Reasons for the fear do not make
sense.
b. The fear paralyzes instead of
enhances the
c. The fear seems to be the problem.
ability to deal with caused by the
threat of
discharged of self destructive

17. Example:
Achluphobia/nyctophobia – fear of dark
Acrophobia – fear of high places
Aichmophobia – fear of open paces
Algophobia – fear of pain
Arachnephobia – fear of spiders
Astraphobia – fear of thunder, lightning & storm
Cheimophobia – fear of cold
Dipsophobia – fear of drinking
Ecophobia/Oikophobia – fear of home
Electrophobia – fear of electricity
Pathophobia – fear of disease
Xenophobia – fear of strangers

18. 2. Obsession
• is an idea or series of idea which
recur so frequently that it
interferes with normal thinking.
The thought continues to intrude
no matter how hard one tries and
what activities are undertaken.
Common
Osession:
Self-Accusatory Thoughts - Thought
about losing the mind, committing
immoral acts, superstitious worries,
etc.

19. Psychodynamics of
obsessionof the obsession is from an early
a. The origin :
unpleasant experience.
b. The individual retained some painful
ideas, usually of guilt as a result of this
experience.
c. Since the memory of such experience is
unbreakable it is displaced with an idea
which is more tolerable
d. The obsessional thoughts usually are only
remotely, although symbolically related to the
expressed experience.
e. Feelings of guilt & shame, as a rule are the
casual factors in obsessional thinking.

20. 3. Compulsion
• irresistible tendency to perform
an act or ritual which the
individual feels compelled to
carry out even though it is
recognize as irrational.
Example:
Arithmania – impulse to count everything.
Dipsomania – impulse to drink liquor.
Homicidalmania – impulse to kill.
Kleptomania – impulse to steal.
Megalomania – impulse for fame & power.
Pyromania – impulse to set fire to things.
Suicidalmania – impulse to take one’s own
life.

21. Other Types:
I. Traumatic Neurosis
• Inappropriate symptom pattern is
manifested in a situation where
the individual fears for his/her
safety.
II. Operational Fatigue or
War Neurosis
• Manifested in response to a battle
environment it is reactive state
resulting from

22. The Anxiety Disorder
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