The most important of the psychoneuroses, in so far as the housewife is concerned, is the condition called neurasthenia, although two other diseases, psychasthenia and hysteria, are of importance.
I have stated that in medical practice two other types are described,--psychasthenia and hysteria.
By the term psychasthenia is understood a group of conditions in which the bodily symptoms, such as fatigue, sleeplessness, loss of appetite, etc.
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.
We might go through the various stages of neurasthenia and then through psychasthenia and then through hysteria and so on.
Freud has delimited what he calls obsessional or compulsion neurosis (Zwangsneurosis), which is classed under psychasthenia by the French and under neurasthenia by others.
In this psychasthenia we find inhibitory phenomena, hyperemotionalism, and over-imagination.
Case 178 is a case of psychasthenia following several months’ service by a man who probably should never have entered military service.
The basis of the psychasthenia is often also, genuinely enough, a fear.
Remarks on the treatment of neurasthenia and psychasthenia following shell shock.
He was cared for in various hospitals, but the psychasthenia increased.
He goes so far as to say that practically all cases of war neurasthenia and psychasthenia can be cured and sent back to work if treatment by hypnotic suggestion is used in a reasonable time.
I went to see a stomach specialist who looked me over and gravely informed me that I had psychasthenia anorexia.
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