(1) The idea that it was just depression or hysteria, a psychoneurosis or u2018all in the mind,u2019 he found not only ludicrous and cruel, but also dangerous, and his records contain several examples of suicide.(2) Today we would call this an anxiety-caused psychoneurosis .(3) This was Freud's definition of psychoneurosis : We limit how we live so that we can limit the amount of anxiety that we experience.(4) His clinical diagnosis was u2018chronic and acute anxiety psychoneurosis with generalized phobic extensions.u2019(5) Hysteria can currently be defined as a form of psychoneurosis characterized by disturbances of the sensory and motor functions, with a high degree of susceptibility to autosuggestion or hypnosis.(6) Therefore, 18 y after exposure, Gilchrist described one patient with epilepsy and u2018psychoneurosisu2019 and another with shaking, jerking, stammering, and deafness whom he considered mislabeled as psychoneurotic .(7) In most of these studies the subjects were being treated for endogenous depression, neurotic depressive reaction, or psychoneurotic reaction with depression.(8) Twenty-four percent also developed other psychosomatic disturbances, 50% showing various psychoneurotic symptoms not present earlier, and 3% showing characterological symptoms.(9) Others suffered from psychoneurotic symptoms alone - mutism, loss of speech, hysterical twitching, and uncontrollable jerkings of arms and legs.(10) They often complain of psychoneurotic symptoms such as depression, agitation, sleeplessness, hot flushes, and memory disturbance, and of a decrease in motor system functions.
