psychasthenia

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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

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

"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

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

If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo