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Neurasthenia
History and Nature of Neurasthenia: Definition | Introduction by Beard | Earlier writings | Previous titles to condition neurasthenia a neurosis
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Weak nerves in China: Neurasthenia-depression controversy as a window on psychiatric nosology
… first decade of the twentieth century, in 1980 neurasthenia was removed from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This roughly coincided with the opening of China after Nixon’s famous visit, and for the first time in many years, Western …
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The treatment of evacuated war neuroses casualties in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
… from the upper classes were diagnosed with neurasthenia and given "rest" and "spa" treatments while soldiers from the other ranks and lower classes were diagnosed with hysteria and treated with punitive therapies designed to convince them to return to the front lines. However, these …
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Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and the Great War discourse on "Shell-Shock"
… more scientific label, physicians decided upon "neurasthenia," a psychiatric condition linked to exhaustion and memory loss. These three terms - shell-shock, neurasthenia, and neuroses - were used interchangeably in public, political, and military discourse throughout the war, but most of the …
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Redefining mental illness: medicalization, mental healthcare, and Morita Therapy, 1868-1938
… shinkeishitsu. While it was often translated as “neurasthenia” after the definition of George Miller Beard (1869), Morita himself maintained that it was a nervous disorder with symptoms that included a range of ailments. Anything from physical and mental fatigue, headaches, heart palpitations, …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… George Miller Beard identified the diagnosis of neurasthenia. Popularly referred to as Americanitis, Beard treated an increasing number of people for symptoms of anxiety, malaise and gastric discomfort. Per Beard, the illness resulted from the rapidly changing mechanical landscape of modernity. …
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Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930
… problems, venereal diseases, skin disorders, neurasthenia, and afflictions of the lungs, suffered by residents of Nevada frontier and mining towns.Documentary evidence supported the use of Chinese medicine by Euro-Americans; however, the archaeological evidence did not support such use. …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… substitute for the late nineteenth century's ""neurasthenia,"" I show how dominant constructions of the disease in the twentieth century are predicated upon a neurasthenic logic which coordinated American identity with the complex, ""civilized"" neuroses that were supposed to be the exclusive …
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A statistical study of the relations of neurasthenic, dyspeptic, and allergic symptoms
… subject with all the personality difficulties of neurasthenia upon questioning and testing is found to have an allergic constitution with hay fever, rheumatism, and migraine. Still another subject of restless, instable disposition, with overworked, irritable emotions and strong inferiority complex …
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The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's <em>This Side of Paradise</em>, "Winter Dreams," and "The Swimmers"
… centuries was marked by a nervousness, or neurasthenia. Strongly gendered, it was characterized among men by effeminacy and an anxiety about masculinity. Confronted by the eroding ideals of Victorian American self-reliance and independence, a stout-hearted willingness to labor to establish …
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Physical incapacity, its assessment with an analysis of 1200 cases
… must take place as to render a man capable. (1) Neurasthenia - A large number of cases - is not a disease of the idle and leisured only, fatigue, monotony and strain all definite causes. Endocrine disturbance at the menopause a potent factor. Fatigue is a general condition,in rare cases a local …
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'The Proust of Painting': Jacques-Émile Blanche, the Neurasthenic Portrait and the Nervous Elite of Paris 1900
Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) is rarely included in histories of late nineteenth-century French art, despite his prolific career as an artist who produced over 2,000 paintings. A portraitist, Blanche’s upbringing as the son of an eminent psychiatrist provided him with a wealth of sitters …