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As a rule the properly so-called psychasthenic has only disorders of the reflection; he doubts but he does not rave.

From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society

Of course, everybody has such obsessions and doubts occasionally, but to be psychasthenic about it is to have them continually and to have them obtrude themselves into every action.

From The Nervous Housewife by Myerson, Abraham

This psychasthenic state, the folie du doute of the French, is accompanied by fear, restlessness and an oppressive feeling of unreality.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham

The psychasthenic may pick up such impulses from any model for imitation or from any haphazard report.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

But the abnormal increase of suggestibility parallel to that of hypnotism for suggestions from without exists for suggestions from within, mainly in nervous diseases, especially in neurasthenic, hysteric, and psychasthenic states.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo