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

Most authors admit a constitutional disposition to scrupulosity, just as there is one to its quasi-genus, psychasthenia.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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

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

One finds the coward very commonly in the clinics for nervous diseases, and in some cases the formidable term of psychasthenia is merely camouflage for the more direct English word.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham