- considered to be below 2.5. The neurotic has thorough concern about the
future to the degree that he has many more fears about the future than he has goals in the
future. He spends much of his time pondering the past. He acts and then wonders if he has
acted correctly and is sure he has not. Thoughts to him are as solid as mest. He is
overwhelmed by sudden counter-efforts. He is operating on a subcontrol center which has
been itself very blunted. He is ill much of the time to a greater or lesser degree. He has
colds. He brings "bad luck" and disaster. He is Homo sapiens at his
"rational worst." (AP&A, p. 38)
- a neurotic is a person who has some obsession or compulsion which overmasters his
self-determinism to such a degree that it is a social liability. (Spr Lect 9, 5303CM27)
- identified by the preclear having mock-ups which will not persist or which won't go
away. (COHA, p. 232)
- a person who is mainly harmful to himself by reason of his aberrations, but not to the
point of suicide. (SOS, pp. 25-26)
- the computation of present time only. (Scn 0-8, p. 89)