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Psychasthenia
SpecialtyClinical Psychology, Psychiatry

Psychasthenia was a psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.[1] The term is no longer in psychiatric diagnostic use, although it still forms one of the ten clinical subscales of the popular self-report personality inventories MMPI and MMPI-2. It is also one of the fifteen scales of the Karolinska Scales of Personality.

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Neurasthenia

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Karolinska Scales of Personality

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grouped into 15 scales: Psychic anxiety Somatic anxiety Muscular tension Psychasthenia Inhibition of aggression Detachment Impulsiveness Monotony avoidance...

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Pierre Janet

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competence, which he set out in publications including Obsessions and Psychasthenia (1903) and From Anguish to Ecstasy (1926), among others. In its concern...

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

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S. R. (1942). A multiphasic personality schedule (Minnesota): IV. Psychasthenia. Journal of Applied Psychology, 26, 614-624. McKinley, J. C, & Hathaway...

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Neurosis

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hysterias and psychasthenias. Hysterias induced such symptoms as anaesthesia, visual field narrowing, paralyses, and unconscious acts. Psychasthenias involved...

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Billy Hughes

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and following a near nervous breakdown in 1924 was diagnosed with "psychasthenia". Hughes was a lifelong Anglican. He inherited this affiliation from...

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Emil Rupp

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had written them under the influence of "dreamlike states" caused by psychasthenia. Rupp never worked again as a physicist, and all other physicists ceased...

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The Mask of Sanity

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the benefit of the doubt to issues such as neurasthenia, hysteria, psychasthenia, posttraumatic neuroses, or cerebral trauma from skull injuries and...

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Russian Mennonites

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Psychasthénie (The obsessions and psychasthenia) in 1903. It included the newly defined condition of psychasthenia, which became a prototype of Carl Jung's...

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Roger Caillois

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psychoanalysis (1934) An English translation of the essay: Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia (1935) Cheng, Joyce: "Mask, Mimicry, Metamorphosis: Roger Caillois,...

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Alternative five model of personality

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Neuroticism–anxiety: measures anxiety, fear, general emotionality, psychasthenia, and inhibition of aggression. The factor is also associated with obsessive...

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World War I prisoners of war in Germany

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syndrome", around which the Anthelme Mangin affaire revolved. This psychasthenia was recognised by the Kriegsministerium (German War Ministry) in April...

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Minotaure

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George Lennon

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report in 1944 suggested he was suffering from ‘reactive depression (psychasthenia) and pulmonary disease attributable to military service in IRA,’ and...

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Lea Del Bo Rossi

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of progressive paralysis with penicillin, regeneration nervosa and psychasthenia. There she worked with the institute's director Max Beluffi. Beginning...

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George Alder Blumer

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Journal of Insanity (1903): 1-18. Blumer, George A. "The Coming of Psychasthenia," Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease (1906): 336-353. Blumer, George...

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