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neurasthenia Path.|njʊəræsˈθiːnɪə|
[f. as prec. + asthenia.]
An atonic condition of the nervous system; functional nervous weakness; nervous debility.
1856in Mayne Expos. Lex. 1879Beard (title) The Nature and Diagnosis of Neurasthenia. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 135 Neurasthenia is indeed often the product of stresses upon the function of the mind. 1922J. Riviere tr. Freud's Introd. Lectures on Psycho-Anal. xxiv. 325 We distinguish three pure forms of actual neurosis: neurasthenia, anxiety-neurosis and hypochondria. Even this classification has been disputed. The terms are certainly all in use, but their connotation is vague and unsettled. 1926J. I. Suttie tr. Ferenczi's Further Contrib. Theory & Technique Psycho-Anal. ii. 35 The obsessional neuroses are nowadays mostly ranked among the ‘neurasthenias’. 1965Rosen & Gregory Abnormal Psychol. xii. 250/1 Neurasthenia is observed with such frequency in housewives who are bored and feel neglected by their husbands that it has often been called ‘housewives' neurosis’. 1968C. Rycroft Crit. Dict. Psychoanal. 96 Neurasthenia, obsolescent medical and psychiatric term for a state of excessive fatiguability and lack of vigour. 1974M. Sainsbury Key to Psychiatry xiv. 234 Much disagreement is in evidence through the years regarding the status of neurasthenia as a nosological entity. |