psychasthenic

• If I diagnose or treat the fixed idea of a psychasthenic, the psychological factor itself represents the disturbance. —  Psychotherapy
• 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. —  Psychotherapy
• If a man has a pessimistic temperament, or has fits of temper, or cannot get rid of a sad memory idea, or imagines that he feels an illness which he does not have, or has no energy to work, even today most people are still without suspicion that a neurasthenic or a psychasthenic or a hysteric disturbance of the nervous system may be in its beginning. —  Psychotherapy
• He agreed enthusiastically with his expensive physicians that he was neurasthenic, psychasthenic and neurotic. —  No Clue A Mystery Story
• The hysteric or psychasthenic autosuggestion resists the mere will of breaking it off. —  Psychotherapy

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