Psychasthenia: Fatigue of the Soul or Irrational Suffering

  Psychasthenia is one of the oldest terms in the world of psychology. It first arose in 1903 to define the suffering of the human soul, the pain of those who feel lost, and don’t trust themselves. This existential anguish leads the individual to permanent disturbance, obsessive thinking, phobias, and the state of persistent and almost always irrational anxiety. Today, this concept is no longer understood in the same way. In fact, now, it’s conceived as a personality trait, forming part of the inventory such as the MMPI. It was the psychiatrist, Pierre Janet who introduced this dimension at the…