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

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.

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

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)

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