psychasthenia
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Origin of psychasthenia
From New Latin, dating back to 1905–10; see origin at psych-, asthenia
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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
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
Psychasthenia, Natural and Acquired.—There are two forms of the mental incapacity that underlies many of the curious symptom-complexes that have been studied under the term psychasthenia.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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
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