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1. hebb, D. O. Spontaneous Neurosis in Chimpanzees. Subtitled Theoretical Relations with Clinical and Experimental Phenomena.—Two cases of neurosis in chimpanzees are reported. Empirically human neurosis is a state which is evaluationally abnormal, emotional, generalized, persistent or chronic in some degree, statistically abnormal, not due to a specific, gross neural lesion, has no known physiological basis, produces a marked change in behavior from an earlier baseline, and follows some theoretically “traumatic experience,” such as conflict or frustration; the last three of these are said to be “not essentially true.” Neurosis is in practice an undesirable emotional condition which is generalized and persistent; it occurs in a minority of the population and has no origin in a gross neural lesion. The experimental neurosis is examined. There must be still some doubt about the value of the analogy drawn between human neurosis and the experimentally induced changes in the dog, cat or sheep. More investigation is required.