Neurasthenia was not just for entrepreneurs and businessmen, though – it was closely associated with artists and creative people. “People who were focused on ideas, used their brains to excess, felt ...

Neurasthenia is still included in the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Diseases and is still sometimes diagnosed in Japan and China, but in America, ...

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You've got neurasthenia. The world-weariness we currently identify as 'burnout' actually had a medical terminology back in the days of the Victorian era, and it sounds spot on for what most of us ...

Eating disorders -- especially in young girls -- are really troubling. And we often think of it as a modern day condition. That's not the case. During the Civil War, doctors found cases of ...

A neurasthenia diagnosis was originally a mark of refinement, of being cultured. In classical antiquity and also in the Romantic era, melancholics were often associated with exceptionality ...

The fall of neurasthenia. Neurasthenia lost its popularity as a diagnosis in the early 1900s. One reason for this was that psychiatry became a medical field in its own right.

Neurasthenia peaked in the early 1900s, according to the literary critic Tom Lutz’s fascinating cultural study, American Nervousness, 1903 (Cornell University Press, 1991).

THIS book is principally an appreciation of the late Dr. L. S. Barnes. It describes his attitude to neurasthenia and his method of treating the neurasthenic, which appears to have been by the ...

The 19th-century philosopher William James reportedly called neurasthenia, from which he claimed to suffer himself, “Americanitis,” in part the result of the accelerating pace of American life.

A neurasthenia diagnosis was originally a mark of refinement, of being cultured. In classical antiquity and also in the Romantic era, melancholics were often associated with exceptionality ...