psychasthenia
Americannoun
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Origin of psychasthenia
From New Latin, dating back to 1905–10; see origin at psych-, asthenia
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Then you can check your notes and decide if it's schizophrenia, or catatonia, or psychasthenia, or what not.
From A Thought For Tomorrow by Robert E. Gilbert
"Nerves," "neurasthenia," "psychasthenia," and "hysteria," are all the names of symptoms of definite bodily disease.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
Yet the fact that the patient himself really does not will the effect at which he is aiming separates, mostly without difficulty, the diagnosis of psychasthenia from that of insanity.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
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 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
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