...be either "free floating" and unbound ("anxiety reaction"), and directly felt and expressed, or it may be unconsciously and automatically controlled...mechanisms (repression, conversion, displacement, etc.). In contrast to psychotics, patients with psychoneurotic disorders do not exhibit gross distortion...

...hypochondriacal neuroses. The introduction to the section states, The chief characteristic of these disorders is "anxiety" which may be directly felt and expressed...utilization of various psychological defense mechanisms (depression, conversion, displacement, etc.). In contrast to those with psychoses, patients with psychoneurotic...

...psychoanalytic terms: "The chief characteristic of these disorders is anxiety, which may be directly felt or expressed or which may be unconsciously and automatically...utilization of various psychological defense mechanisms (depression, conversion, displacement, etc.)" (37). 19 Garb, "Gender and Representation," 219-20. 20...

...were phrases like, "The chief characteristics of disorders is anxiety, which may be directly felt or expressed or which may be unconsciously and automatically controlled by the utilization of various defense mechanisms." Well, no more. Spitzer argued that the innovation of DSM ///, two hundred some...

..."psychoneurotic disorders." "The chief characteristic of these [psychoneurotic] disorders," the guide noted, "is 'anxiety' which may be directly felt and expressed or which may be unconsciously . . . controlled by ... various psychological defense mechanisms" (p. 31). 31 Anxiety and phobic disorders...

...animals, etc.' (33) (see below). PSYCHONEUROTIC DISORDERS The chief characteristic of these disorders is 'anxiety' which may be directly felt and expressed...utilization of various psychological defense mechanisms (depression, conversion, displacement, etc.). In contrast to those with psychoses, patients with psychoneurotic...