Neurosis is a conflict between self-awareness and the unconscious. In varying forms, we're all neurotic. Our neuroses shape us as life continues to shape them.

The neurotic competitor is too busy looking back over his shoulder to see where the opposition is to baby himself. He’s also ashamed of anything that resembles weakness, and so can’t let himself give ...

The classic TV series "Seinfeld" introduced perhaps the most neurotic character in television history: George Costanza. We can learn a lot from his often anxiety-driven behavior.

Jon Stewart, still a “tiny, neurotic man,” is back to remind Americans what’s at stake “Even if ironic satire isn’t great at persuading people to change their minds, research shows it does subtly ...

German-born Psychiatrist Hans Lowenbach of Duke University was puzzled for a moment when a colleague complained that one of his patients was "playing possum." Turning the colloquialism over ...

A study has shown that both amateur and professional dancers are less neurotic than people who do not dance. They are also more agreeable, more open, and more extraverted.

Neurotic robots are a staple of science fiction. One study recently found that neurotic traits in a robot can make them seem more relatable.

Last week a hardy old chestnut, still to be cracked, was picked over for the umpteenth time. Picker was Dr. Nolan Don Carpentier Lewis, head of the New York State Psychiatric Institute in ...

What is neurotic imposture? When you meet an executive, they give you the party line. But I give CEO seminars, and in a seminar, people start to talk about other things — meaningful things ...