psychasthenia
noun
(no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
psychasthenic
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a word derived from
psychasthenia.
Example Sentences
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The hysteric or psychasthenic autosuggestion resists the mere will of breaking it off.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
But it is entirely different with the mental states of the psychasthenic.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
This picture may be further complicated by so-called neurasthenic, psychasthenic, hysterical or other reactions.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
Certain individuals pass in a few years from psychasthenic depression with doubts and obsessions to psychasthenic deliriums with stubbornness and negativism, then to asthenic insanity with irremediable and complete want of power.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
For instance, I treated a woman who suffered from psychasthenic obsessions, fearing all the time that something would happen to her child.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg
