Most of you at Washington will have to learn the difference between inhibition and prohibition.
"Psycho-Phone Messages"
Francis Grierson
Here it is not real insanity; but all kinds of abnormal impulses or ideas, of psychasthenic emotions, of neurasthenic disturbances, of hysteric inhibition, are the starting points, and it is only natural that such pathological intrusions should bewilder the patient and induce him to form the wildest theories.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
There is a technical word for his condition: he is in a state of inhibition.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain