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psychasthenia

n. (context dated English) A psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.

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Psychasthenia

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 and MMPI-2.

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In psychasthenia, for example, the individual loses consciousness of his actions, but he sees himself act and attributes his actions to someone else.