psychasthenia

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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

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

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

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

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