REGARD ELOIGNE. Cyborg Anthropology. Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing–and will change–human beings in fundamental ways. Psychasthenia. Definition "Psychasthenia is 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-I and MMPI-II".[1] "The psychasthenic has insufficient control over their conscious thinking and memory, sometimes wandering aimlessly and/or forgetting what they were doing. Thoughts can be scattered and take significant effort to organize, often resulting in sentences that don't come out as intended, therefore making little sense to others.
Psychology.