psychasthenia

[ sahy-kuhs-thee-nee-uh ]

/ ˌsaɪ kəsˈθi ni ə /

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noun

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

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Origin of psychasthenia

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

psy·chas·then·ic

[sahy-kuhs-then-ik], /ˌsaɪ kəsˈθɛn ɪk/, adjective

For these states Janet of Paris suggested the word psychasthenia.
Psychotherapy|James J. Walsh
He was confined two years, suffering from psychasthenia, with suicidal melancholia and delusion of persecution.
Average Jones|Samuel Hopkins Adams
If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.
Psychotherapy|Hugo Mnsterberg
We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.
Psychotherapy|Hugo Mnsterberg

I went to see a stomach specialist who looked me over and gravely informed me that I had psychasthenia anorexia.
Confessions of a Neurasthenic|William Taylor Marrs