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Koro in an Industrial Setting
This case of classical koro in a 52 year old male describes three essential characteristics, i.e., acute exacerbation of chronic anxiety, fear of genital retraction and fear that the complete disappearance of the organ into the abdomen will result in death. Various etiological, developmental and personality factors in the genesis of anxiety have been discussed. The patient was treated with anxi...
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As a culture-bound syndrome, koro is described in the DSM-IV as “an episode of sudden and intense anxiety that the penis (or, in females, the vulva and the nipples) will recede into the body and possibly cause death.” Sometimes the syndrome may occur as an epidemic involving several hundreds to thousands of people within a short period of time. While the syndrome individually involves an anxiet...
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Koro is regarded as a psychogenic acute anxiety reaction since last forty years. In spite of quite a few research publications on koro during last twenty years, no report on psychometric assessment of anxiety level in Koro is available to substantiate this diagnostic status. The present study in this context is the first attempt of psychometric measurement of anxiety proneness or trait anxiety ...
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Koro is an acute anxiety reaction characterized by the patient's desperate fear that his penis is shrinking and may disappear into his abdomen in which case he would die (Lehman, 1975). This culture bound syndrome is said to occur almost exclusively among people of Malay archipelago and the South Chinese who refer to it as Suk-yeong (Yap, 1965). However, recently, two cases were reported from C...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.152.4.579b