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)

If the cure results through the meaning and value of religion, there is no reason whatever why cancer and diphtheria and paralysis should not be cured as well as psychasthenia.

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)

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

From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods

A psychopathic state, scrupulosity is usually listed as a form of psychasthenia which is characterized by weakness of soul, inability to cope with problems, and a lack of psychic energy.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome