McKinley, J. C, & Hathaway, S. R. (1942). A multiphasic personality schedule (Minnesota): IV. Psychasthenia. Journal of Applied Psychology, 26, 614-624.McKinley, J. C, & Hathaway, S. R. (1944).
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Fitzhardinge (1979), pp. 265, 563. He was prone to bouts of depression interspersed with periods of euphoria, and following a near nervous breakdown in 1924 was diagnosed with "psychasthenia".Fitzhardinge (1979), p. 530.
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He attached a psychiatric diagnosis by Dr. Emil von Gebsattel that said he had written them under the influence of "dreamlike states" caused by psychasthenia. Rupp never worked again as a physicist, and all other physicists ceased to refer to any of his alleged results.
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Psychasthenia is a psychological disorder characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.American Heritage Dictionary 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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Here Åsdam blurs the psychological and physical boundaries between the viewer and the nighttime park of the city; the temporary space for teenage hangouts, drug trafficking and sexual cruising. At the same time as representing a temporary space of release, the nighttime park is also a part of the very mythology and narrative of the city.See “Piss Eloquent”, feature article by George Baker, Artforum Feb 2000 Åsdam's photographs involve a similar experience. In the large format printed photographic series Psychasthenia 10, (2000–2001), and the slides installation Psychasthenia 10 series 2 (2001), we are confronted with nighttime photographs of apartment buildings in different western cities.
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A confinement that was visual as well as physical very quickly led to psychological illnesses among the prisoners, illnesses generally grouped under the heading of "barbed-wire psychosis"Yarnall (2011), p. 163.Hinz (2006), p. 115. or "prisoner’s syndrome", around which the Anthelme Mangin affaire revolved. This psychasthenia was recognised by the Kriegsministerium (German War Ministry) in April 1917.
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The MMPI subscale 7 describes psychasthenia as akin to obsessive-compulsive disorder, and as characterised by excessive doubts, compulsions, obsessions, and unreasonable fears. The psychasthenic has an inability to resist specific actions or thoughts, regardless of their maladaptive nature. In addition to obsessive- compulsive features, the scale taps abnormal fears, self-criticism, difficulties in concentration, and guilt feelings. The scale assesses long- term (trait) anxiety, although it is somewhat responsive to situational stress as well.
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Karolinska Scales of Personality (KSP) is a personality test. A newer version of the test is Swedish Universities Scales of Personality. KSP measures the personality with a 135 item questionnaire with answers on a four-point Likert scale. The answers are grouped into 15 scales: # Psychic anxiety # Somatic anxiety # Muscular tension # Psychasthenia # Inhibition of aggression # Detachment # Impulsiveness # Monotony avoidance (sensation seeking) # Socialization # Indirect aggression # Verbal aggression # Irritability # Suspicion # Guilt # Social desirability KSP also exists in a Spanish version.
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After the war Fukushima would work repairing wristwatches and developing photographs, and later as a district welfare officer. Documenting the victims of the Hiroshima bombing over 10 years, he published the Japan Photo Critics Association award- winning photobook "Pika Don: The Memories of Atomic Bombing Victims." Badly affected by the suffering and poverty he witnessed, he started to have auditory and visual hallucinations and was diagnosed with psychasthenia. He would move to Tokyo in 1961 with his 3 children to work as a professional photographer after separating from his wife.
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The 20th century saw Janet developing a grand model of the mind in terms of levels of energy, efficiency and social competence, which he set out in publications including Obsessions and Psychasthenia (1903) and From Anguish to Ecstasy (1926), among others.Ellenberger, p. 386 In its concern for the construction of the personality in social terms, this model has been compared to the social behaviorism of George Herbert MeadEllenberger, p. 405–406. something which explains Lacan's early praise of "Janet, who demonstrated so admirably the signification of feelings of persecution as phenomenological moments in social behaviour".
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The term "psychasthenia" is historically associated primarily with the work of Pierre Janet, who divided the neuroses into the psychasthenias and the hysterias, discarding the term "neurasthenia" since it implied a neurological theory where none existed.Ellenberger (1970), p. 375; Janet (1903) Whereas the hysterias involved at their source a narrowing of the field of consciousness, the psychasthenias involved at root a disturbance in the fonction du reél ('function of reality'), a kind of weakness in the ability to attend to, adjust to, and synthesise one's changing experience (cf. executive functions in today's empiricist psychologies).
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