BACKGROUND Current knowledge about associations between psychosocial factors and non-psychotic symptoms provide little information about their relationship to specific types of neurotic symptoms such as symptoms of fatigue, worry, phobic anxiety and obsessional symptoms. METHOD The British National Survey of Psychiatric Morbidity was based on a cross-sectional random sample of 10,108 househol...

OBJECTIVE To provide a review of the evidence-based treatments for obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders (OCSD), a group of conditions related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) by phenomenological and etiological similarities, the morbidity of which is increasingly recognized. METHOD Literature relating to the following disorders: body dysmorphic disorder, hypochondriasis, trichotillom...

Sweet itch is an equine hypersensitivity reaction to the biting insects Simulium and Culicoides. It is the most common allergic skin disease of horses and there is a strong hereditary component with certain breeds being over-represented (Welsh, shire and Icelandic breeds). A seasonal pruritus of the predilection sites (mane and tail base) is the main clinical sign leading to self-inflicted trau...

Neurosis can be interpreted as a methodological condition which any aim-pursuing entity can suffer from. If such an entity pursues a problematic aim B, represents to itself that it is pursuing a different aim C, and as a result fails to solve the problems associated with B which, if solved, would lead to the pursuit of aim A, then the entity may be said to be "rationalistically neurotic". Natur...

Many psychiatrists believe that there are special personality traits characteristic of the epileptic. Various writers have referred to these as mental peculiarities, emotional instability, impulsiveness, moral anergia, and incapacity for productive occupation involving initiative and consecutive activity (Spratling, 1904), eccentricity, supersensitiveness, emotional poverty, and rigidity (Clark...

This study has analyzed the culture and language of the American Dream in Blue Surge. It shows the effects of the formula of success and the competition presented by this dream; and, how it produces neurotic individuals trying to cope with the competitive society by means of neurotic strategies. This study has used Karen Horney’s theories and strategies. Horney says neurosis is engende...

INTRODUCTION Controversial results on the relationship between the left-handedness and neurotic disturbances have been obtained in so far investigations. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the link between the left-handedness and neurotic disturbances in an adult urban population. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed on 1,202 adult residents of the Stari Grad munici...