psychasthenia

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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

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 the cure results through the meaning and value of religion, there is no reason whatever why cancer and diphtheria and paralysis should not be cured as well as psychasthenia.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

I went to see a stomach specialist who looked me over and gravely informed me that I had psychasthenia anorexia.

From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor

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)