Definition of Psychasthenics

1. psychasthenic [n] - See also: psychasthenic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Psychasthenics

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

Literary usage of Psychasthenics

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

1. American Medicine (1908)
"exclusively the psychasthenics and the hysterics, and that this is of ... As a matter of fact, it is not only the hysterics and the psychasthenics who are ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"percentage of psychasthenics discharged and those remaining in the Hospital is ... Of these fifty psychasthenics the most careful records have been kept and ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"percentage of psychasthenics discharged and those remaining in the Hospital is ... Of these fifty psychasthenics the most careful records have been kept and ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"... one or more of these in a rudimentary way who are in no way psychasthenics, ... and psychasthenics. THE PATHOGENESIS AND TREATMENT OF NEURASTHENIA IN ..."

5. The Psychology of Functional Neuroses by Harry Levi Hollingworth (1920)
"Hysterics, constitutional psychopaths and psychasthenics do inferior work in Word Building. In Digit Span constitutional psychopaths and ..."

6. The Psychoneuroses and Their Treatment by Psychotherapy by E. Gauckler (1915)
"There now remains a last category of patients to be described, which are classified by Janet in the same nosological list, the psychasthenics. ..."

7. Mind and Its Disorders: A Text-book for Students and Practitioners by William Henry Butter Stoddart (1908)
"and, vice versa, psychasthenics often suffer from neurasthenic symptoms. Lastly it must not be forgotten that attacks of mania, melancholia, anergic stupor, ..."

8. The Modern Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases by William Alanson White, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1913)
"... cases show a disposition similar to that of the psychasthenics of Janet; delusions of reference are not generalized and all-englobing. ..."

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