psychasthenia

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We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

Yet the fact that the patient himself really does not will the effect at which he is aiming separates, mostly without difficulty, the diagnosis of psychasthenia from that of insanity.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

A case of psychasthenia in a child aged two years, due to coffee drinking.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

We shall see what an important rôle belongs to these facts, especially in the treatment of hysteria and psychasthenia, but the interpretation again ought to avoid all playing with the conception of the subconscious.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo