By the term psychasthenia is understood a group of conditions in which the bodily symptoms, such as fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, etc., are either not so marked as in neurasthenia, or else are overshadowed by other, more distinctly mental symptoms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Housewife] Reference

He knew that Kameon thought he was finicky to the point of psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Covergent Series]

To repeat, neuroses, neurasthenia, psychasthenia, and the various forms of neuropathy and psychopathy are dysgenic factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman Her Sex and Love Life] Reference

This is a remarkable showing when we consider the strain of the strange, long, dark winter campaign, and of these fourteen cases six were mental deficiency that were not detected by the experts at time of enlistment and induction, three were hysteria, two neurasthenia, and three psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919] Reference

My research leads me to conclude this must be about Mr. Sagen's psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [South Dakota War College] Reference

I have stated that in medical practice two other types are described, -- psychasthenia and hysteria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nervous Housewife] Reference

If we classify symptoms, we may separate from it that which we nowadays are inclined to call psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Such occur conspicuously in the psychopathological syndrome so completely described by Janet under the term psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

In this way they give rise to the symptoms which we meet in hysteria and psychasthenia -- fears, phobias, obsessions, and tics, like stammering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference

Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

One finds the coward very commonly in the clinics for nervous diseases, and in some cases the formidable term of psychasthenia is merely camouflage for the more direct English word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foundations of Personality] Reference

Yet the fact that the patient himself really does not will the effect at which he is aiming separates, mostly without difficulty, the diagnosis of psychasthenia from that of insanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

We shall see what an important rôle belongs to these facts, especially in the treatment of hysteria and psychasthenia, but the interpretation again ought to avoid all playing with the conception of the subconscious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

We have seen that the work of the psychotherapist is of very unequal value in different parts of the field; in some, as in neurasthenia, in psychasthenia, in hysteria and similar regions most effective, in others like paresis or paranoia reduced to an almost insignificant factor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

And yet when Déjérine lays stress upon the fact that badly organized moral hygiene conduces to the emotional preoccupations which lead to obsessions and which he regards as the essential characteristics of the neurasthenic constitution, he leaves no apparent distinction from the psychasthenia of Janet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

The authors believe that neurasthenia differs from the psychasthenia of Janet in that the latter is constitutional, and that the obsessions are secondary, when analysed profoundly, to some pain-bearing contingency which by the mechanism of association has pervaded the mind and which henceforth distorts it with subsequent realities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

For the purpose of this discussion, it is not important whether psychasthenia arises purely from degeneration of structure, or from faults in the chemistry of the plasma which bathes the nerve structures, or whether it is a purely psychopathological condition to which the physical phenomena are secondary, as some would have us believe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference

Moreover in very frequent cases, for instance, of neurasthenia or hysteria or psychasthenia, such wholesale remedies can form only the background of the treatment, but all the details have to be furnished with reference to a most subtle analysis of the special symptoms, and a particular organic symptom or a particular memory idea or a special inhibition by a well-selected counter-idea will do much more than any great emotional revival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Psychotherapeutic influence may remove the phobia of a psychasthenic or the obsession of a neurasthenic or the emotion of a hysteric, and thus may bring not only momentary relief but a change which may be favorable for general improvement, but certainly the neurasthenia and psychasthenia and hysteria are not really removed by it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychotherapy] Reference

Disorders/Phobias of < as found in psychasthenia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Applied Psychology for Nurses] Reference