psychasthenia

Psychasthenia was 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. It is also one of the fifteen scales of the Karolinska Scales of Personality.

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It is catalogued under the topic Stress-related disorders.

Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.

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Medical condition (new).name: Psychasthenia
Medical condition (new).field: Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry

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Subclass of: mental disorder
Said to be same as: obsessive-compulsive disorder

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measurement scale: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
ICD-9-CM: 300.89
health specialty: clinical psychology

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==MMPI== 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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