Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Whatever be the disorders you may consider, aboulias, hysterical accidents, psychasthenic obsessions, periodical depressions, melancholics, systematized deliriums, asthenic insanity, you will always find a number of facts resulting from this general perturbation.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society

For instance, I treated a woman who suffered from psychasthenic obsessions, fearing all the time that something would happen to her child.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

But the abnormal increase of suggestibility parallel to that of hypnotism for suggestions from without exists for suggestions from within, mainly in nervous diseases, especially in neurasthenic, hysteric, and psychasthenic states.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

But it is entirely different with the mental states of the psychasthenic.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

He agreed enthusiastically with his expensive physicians that he was neurasthenic, psychasthenic and neurotic.

From No Clue A Mystery Story by Hay, James