Sentences with phrase «neurotic obsession»

Amongst bodybuilders and fitness enthusiasts, there's this neurotic obsession with meal timing and protein synthesis.

The tragedy is not that we have utterly divorced the mental and the physical, but that we are constantly seeking a renewal of the mind through a neurotic obsession with altering the body.

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In the lives of the saints we see that love of God and neighbour brings a new quality to love of self, it is placed into an eternal dimension and removed from a neurotic self - obsession.

Panic, phobias, conversions, obsessions, compulsions and depressions (analysts call these «neurotic symptoms») are not usually caused by deficits in functions.

According to psychoanalytic theory, panic, phobias, conversions, obsessions, compulsions and depressions (generally referred to as «neurotic symptoms») are not usually caused by deficits in functions as in the psychoses (see below); rather, they are caused by intrapsychic conflicts.