psychasthenia
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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 William Taylor Marrs
We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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 Hugo Münsterberg
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 James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
