psychasthenia

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

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

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

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

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

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