Psychoneuroses Psychoneuroses or neuroses are behavioral disorder brought about by emotional tension resulting from frustration, conflicts, repression, or insecurity. The person who develops a neurosis breaks down under the pressure of outer and inner stresses and displays a host of distress symptoms, although not serious enough to require instituonalization.
These psychoneuroses although indirectly due to the head injury, were disabling factors and frequently led to some instances permanent total disabilities. By the realization, that psychoneuroses develop quite readily in patients especially those who suffer from head injury should be ready to combat this kind of development. In this kind of disorder, the brain that has been damaged has its parts that are very important and needs a full protection. Like the scalp flap in which the strips of hair bearing scalp are rotated from the side and back of the head to the front and top, which restores the hairline while maintaining normal hair density. Another part is skull and we all know that it’s main and overall function is to protect the brain and sensory organs and support facial structures. Next is galea, a muscle that covers the upper part of the skull. It’s attachment to the frontal and occipital bellies muscles on the brow at the front and on the upper back of the head, allows it to move the scalp freely over the underlying skull bone. Next part is the diffuse edema where a condition of abnormally large fluid volume in the circulatory system or in tissues between the brain cells and lastly the temporal lobe these are involved in the retention of visual memories, processing sensory input, comprehending language, storing new memories, emotion, and deriving meaning.

These behavioral disorder may cause a tricky hard ways to those who experienced it but there’s a way on how to cure them. In short there’s a possible treatment in curing the psychoneuroses. Since psychoneuroses is a behavioral disorder, a behavioral treatment must use to cure this kind of disorder. First, in using the De conditioning procedure where in the maladaptive response and neurotic symptoms occur because of learning and hence can be unlearned. These two approaches are called habituation and reciprocal inhibition and these methods have been successfully used specially with phobic patients. Second is by using the obsessive compulsive of the individuals where in the view of all neurotic disorders, phobic disorders appears to be most amenable to behavior modification such as reciprocal inhabitation. In this technique people are placed in the type of environmental situation that produces the obsessive compulsive behavior, but they are prevented from expressing the behavior . Lastly the method called Flooding where in the patient is forced to experience the obsession or fear in a number of times. After repeated trials in which the obsessive thoughts is experienced, the patient appears to adopt to the presence of the fear or obsession. As a result of such adaptation, the person may no longer need to use the phobia or obsessive strategy.