psychasthenia
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of psychasthenia
From New Latin, dating back to 1905–10; see origin at psych-, asthenia
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"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
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 Charles Jerome Callan
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 Charles Jerome Callan
A case of psychasthenia in a child aged two years, due to coffee drinking.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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