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

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

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

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

Yet the fact that the patient himself really does not will the effect at which he is aiming separates, mostly without difficulty, the diagnosis of psychasthenia from that of insanity.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

Then you can check your notes and decide if it's schizophrenia, or catatonia, or psychasthenia, or what not.

From A Thought For Tomorrow by Gilbert, Robert E.