Of course, everybody has such obsessions and doubts occasionally, but to be psychasthenic about it is to have them continually and to have them obtrude themselves into every action.
Even in slight psychasthenic disturbances, the psychotherapeutic influence is not always successful, especially if there is no time for full treatment.
And again small steps lead from here to the case of the psychasthenic sufferer whose phobia does not allow him to cross any square and where reënforced suggestion has to break open the ways for the walking movement when the square is reached.
A certain word perhaps picked up by the psychasthenic in a particular experience may produce whenever it is seen a shock and a depressing emotion.
The hysterical lady on Fifth Avenue and the psychasthenic old maid in the New England country town both simply have to learn to do useful work with a concentrated effort and a high purpose.
Psychasthenic fear can be removed, while the developed melancholic depression, for instance, is entirely beyond the reach of psychical influence.
A gentleman with a decidedly psychasthenic constitution developed a tendency to hesitate in walking on the street.
But the abnormal increase of suggestibility parallel to that of hypnotism for suggestions from without exists for suggestions from within, mainly in nervous diseases, especially in neurasthenic, hysteric, and psychasthenic states.
Yet it is always wise to keep a psychasthenic interpretation in view as long as the insanity is not evident.
They may have turned the immoral man into a moral man, the skeptic into a believer, but the physician cannot overlook that the result may be a moral man with a crippled nervous system, a believer with psychasthenic symptoms.
The hysteric or psychasthenic autosuggestion resists the mere will of breaking it off.
This man was a constitutional intimiste; a psychasthenic en herbe.
He got somewhat better and did not wish to go on leave, because he feared the recurrence of these psychasthenic paroxysms.
It is these hyperemotional and hyperfantastic features that distinguish the Shell-shock syndrome from ordinary psychasthenic states.
According to Ballet and de Fursac, after the acute phase of stupor and excitement with hallucinations and delirium passes, the patient remains a depressed and psychasthenic subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "psychasthenic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: disordered; disturbed; hypochondriac; hysterical; neurotic; psychoneurotic
