Psychoneurosis

neurosis

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

Psychoneurosis
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.

Common
Behavior and
Characteristics:
1. Anxiety

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

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

Causes of Neurotic Reaction:

1. Predisposing, possibly constitutional factors.

2. Childhood development patterns.

3. Life situation that precipitated the reactions
4. Cultural Factors.

3 GeneraL Group:
I.

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

Types of

Anxiety:

1.
Loss of interest in the surrounding
Neurasthenia
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.

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 husbands 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
attention from her husband.

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

People whose parents were over protective,

who showed too much concern about their
childs

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.

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.

Types of

Hysteria:

1. Amnesia
Literally
means
Forgetting
Disorder which the individual cannot
recall his/her name & remembers
little or nothing about the past.
Types of Amnesia:
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

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.

4. Multiple Personality
dramatic form of hysteria. 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.

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.

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
to deal
withtothe
c. ability
The fear
seems
beproblem.
caused by the
threat of
discharged

of

self

destructive

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

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.

Psychodynamics of obsession
: The origin of the obsession is from an early
a.
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.

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 ones own
life.

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

Neurosis

War

Manifested in response to a battle

environment it is reactive state
resulting from

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Disorder
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And
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