psychasthenia

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Psychasthenia, Natural and Acquired.—There are two forms of the mental incapacity that underlies many of the curious symptom-complexes that have been studied under the term psychasthenia.

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

Then you can check your notes and decide if it's schizophrenia, or catatonia, or psychasthenia, or what not.

From A Thought For Tomorrow by Gilbert, Robert E.

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

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

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

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