psychasthenic
- a word derived from psychasthenia.
Example Sentences
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All neurasthenic and psychasthenic disabilities show a certain emotional continuity and uniformity.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
The hysteric or psychasthenic autosuggestion resists the mere will of breaking it off.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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
If I diagnose or treat the fixed idea of a psychasthenic, the psychological factor itself represents the disturbance.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
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 Münsterberg, Hugo
