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Definition of Obsessional
1. Adjective. Characterized by or constituting an obsession. "Obsessive gambling"
Similar to: Neurotic, Psychoneurotic
Derivative terms: Obsession, Obsession, Obsess, Obsessive, Obsessiveness, Obsessivity
Definition of Obsessional
1. Adjective. Marked by obsession ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Obsessional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Obsessional
Literary usage of Obsessional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nervous and mental disease monograph series (1913)
"CHAPTER VII THE obsessional NEUROSIS Relation to Hysteria. Substitution Instead
of Conversion. Characteristic Obsession. " Nature and Mechanism of the ..."
2. Freud's Theories of the Neuroses by Eduard Hitschmann (1917)
""Remarks on a Case of obsessional Neurosis" (1909). Significance of Instinct in
Life (Sadism). Love and Hate; Obsession and Doubt. Mechanism of Distortion. ..."
3. Psychological Medicine; a Manual on Mental Diseases for Practitioners and by Maurice Craig (1905)
"CHAPTER XVII obsessional INSANITY SEVERAL names have been used to denote the
disorder about to be described, those most commonly used being ' obsessions ..."
4. American Medicine (1921)
"In general, the obsessional neurosis shows much more clearly than hysteria that
the agents ... The necessary infantile basis of the obsessional neurosis, ..."
5. Contributions to Psycho-analysis by Sándor Ferenczi (1916)
"They all regard themselves as inverts, and are glad to have found a scientific
support for the justification of their obsessional ideas and actions. ..."
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