Hysteria: That form of functional nervous disorder which manifests itself in physical symptoms; an attempt to dramatize unconscious repressed desires.
Inhibition: Restraint (Special) limitation of function, physical or ideational, due to unconscious emotional attitudes.
Libido: Life-force, élan vital, or (restricted) the energy of the sex-instinct.
Neurosis: Used loosely for psycho-neurosis or nervous disorder.
Obsession: A compulsive idea inaccessible to reason.
Oedipus Complex: Over-strong bond between mother and son, or (more loosely) between father and daughter.
Over-determined: Used of an impulse made over-strong by lack of discharge, with accumulation of emotional tension from added factors.
Phobia: A persistent, unreasoning fear of some object or situation.
Psycho-neurosis: "A perversion of normal (psychic) reactions," (Prince); a general term for functional dissociation of the personality, resulting in: psychasthenia—disturbed ideation; neurasthenia—disturbed emotions; hysteria—disturbed motor or sensory activity.
Psychotherapy: Treatment by psychic or mental measures.