Also, if we are weakened by ill health or nervous strain, these infantile wishes may take the form of "Neuroses," and fully grown people may take to stammering, or become impotent, or hysterical, or even insane, because of failures of adjustment to life that happened when they were a year or two old.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
When morbid and their equilibrium dislocated, we may even have phobias and Neuroses.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, a popular phrase, "nerves," paraphrased by practitioners of medicine as Neuroses, then came into vogue as the efficient cause of these troubles.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.