psychasthenia

• To repeat, neuroses, neurasthenia, psychasthenia, and the various forms of neuropathy and psychopathy are dysgenic factors. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
• Our aim will be to analyze these influences and to discover how they work I have stated that in medical practice two other types are described,--psychasthenia and hysteria. —  The Nervous Housewife
• However, they are usually of more serious nature, and as such merit a description 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 These mental symptoms are of three main types. —  The Nervous Housewife
• From a Jewish-American father he has inherited that all too common taint of psychasthenia (miscalled neurasthenia); he confesses, moreover,--like other men of strong carnal proclivities--to certain immaterial needs and aspirations after "the beyond." —  Alone
• He was confined two years, suffering from psychasthenia, with suicidal melancholia and delusion of persecution. —  Average Jones

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