psychasthenia
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"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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 Charles Jerome Callan
