psychasthenia

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For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word 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

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)

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

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