ABSTRACT
Cullen (1777) coined the term “neurosis.” It would be misleading, however, if one relied upon Cullen for a definition of neurosis. For since that time, as Quandt and Fervers suggest, the concept has undergone a change in meaning. And one could say that the different meanings have multiplied with time. Thus we can understand that both Bumke and Kurt Schneider have recommended doing away with the term. Kloos also is prepared to plead the same; he finds the concept vague and moreover unnecessary. However, he himself adds that the term appears to be ineradicable.
