psychasthenia

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A case of psychasthenia in a child aged two years, due to coffee drinking.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

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

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

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

Such occur conspicuously in the psychopathological syndrome so completely described by Janet under the term psychasthenia.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various