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Charcot had little to offer but a label—Neurasthenie Cephalique, or weak nerves.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Charcot had little to offer but a label—Neurasthenie Cephalique, or weak nerves.
The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008
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Vienna at Krafft-Ebing's psychiatric clinic, Gattel (_Ueber die sexuellen Ursachen der Neurasthenie und Angstneurose_, 1898) carefully investigated the cases of 42 women, mostly at the height of sexual life, -- i.e., between 20 and 35, -- who were suffering from slight nervous disorders, especially neurasthenia and mild hysteria, but none of them from grave nervous or other disease.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women Havelock Ellis 1899
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Neurasthenie_), while admitting that nearly all neurasthenic persons acknowledge masturbation at some period, considers it is not an important cause of neurasthenia, only differing from coitus by the fact that the opportunities for it are more frequent, and that the sexual disturbances of neurasthenia are, in the majority of cases, secondary.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899
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