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psychasthenia

[ sahy-kuhs-thee-nee-uh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Psychiatry. (no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.

From New Latin, dating back to 1905–10; psych-, asthenia

For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.

He was confined two years, suffering from psychasthenia, with suicidal melancholia and delusion of persecution.

If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.

We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.

I went to see a stomach specialist who looked me over and gravely informed me that I had psychasthenia anorexia.

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