psychasthenia
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"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
One finds the coward very commonly in the clinics for nervous diseases, and in some cases the formidable term of psychasthenia is merely camouflage for the more direct English word.
From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham
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)
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
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
