Definition of Psychasthenia

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychasthenia

psshaw
pssst
psst
psuedo
psuedo-
psych
psych-
psych out
psych up
psychagogic
psychagogue
psychagogues
psychal
psychalgia
psychasthenia (current term)
psychasthenias
psychasthenic
psychasthenics
psyche
psyched
psyched out
psyched up
psychedelia
psychedelias
psychedelic
psychedelic circus
psychedelic crises
psychedelic crisis
psychedelic drug

Literary usage of Psychasthenia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Hygiene of the School Child by Lewis Madison Terman (1914)
"Visceral disturbances, disorders 1 psychasthenia and neurasthenia are ... In psychasthenia the disturbances present themselves more especially in the ..."

2. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"psychasthenia. OCCUPYING a middle ground between nervous diseases and outspoken insanity, sometimes linking them together, are a large number of ..."

3. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1919)
"psychasthenia. This malady was first described as a distinct disease form by ... Janet's theory: psychasthenia is due to "A lowering of the psychological ..."

4. An Outline of Abnormal Psychology by James Winfred Bridges (1921)
"psychasthenia. This malady was first described as a distinct disease form by ... psychasthenia is due to "A lowering of the psychological tension," which ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"THE TREATMENT OF psychasthenia FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS.1 BY JAMES JACKSON PUTNAM, MD, PROFESSOR OF NECROLOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY, ..."

6. The Journal of Comparative Neurology by Denison University (1903)
"Obsessions and psychasthenia.1 In this new work, which, like its predecessors on hysteria and on fixed ... This specialized group is termed psychasthenia. ..."

7. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"(rf) psychasthenia psychasthenia is the term applied to a group of symptoms which at one time was classified as belonging to neurasthenia. ..."

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