psychasthenia

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A psychopathic state, scrupulosity is usually listed as a form of psychasthenia which is characterized by weakness of soul, inability to cope with problems, and a lack of psychic energy.

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

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

Such occur conspicuously in the psychopathological syndrome so completely described by Janet under the term psychasthenia.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

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.

If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo