Psychasthenia is a psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety. 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-I and MMPI-II. ==Presentation== The MMPI subscale 7 describes psych...
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psychasthenia, psychasthenic 1. A neurotic state characterized by a lack of energy and decision and by obsessions, doubts, phobias, tics, etc. 2. A form of nervous weakness in which the psychical element is dominant. 3. Medical Latin, literally, 'weakness of the soul' (from Greek 'soul').
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(no longer in technical use) a neurosis marked by fear, anxiety, phobias, etc.
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