Cryptic crossword clue
Uncommon sense about our treatment for emotional disord­ers 8

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word NEUROSES

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What does NEUROSES mean?

NEUROSES noun
  1. A mental disorder, less severe than psychosis, marked by anxiety or fear which differ from normal measures by their intensity, which disorder results from a failure to compromise or properly adjust during the developmental stages of life, between normal human instinctual impulses and the demands of human society.

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