psychasthenia
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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 William Taylor Marrs
We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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 Abraham Myerson
A case of psychasthenia in a child aged two years, due to coffee drinking.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
