“Jikoshu”: Japanese studies in the 1960s and 1970s, and international trends today

In the 1960s and 1970s, there was widespread discussion in Japan about pathological experience of “unpleasant odors emanating from one's body.” This symptom is called “Jikoshu,” this term used combination with various words, such as “Genkaku” (hallucination) “Moso” (delusion), reflecting its symptomatological ambiguity. The best-known English-language literature Jikoshu-Kyofu (Jikoshu phobia). By further abstracting viewing it a delusion-like “something leaking out me,” egorrhea syndrome (Fujinawa) proposed, which considered to be partly pathology schizophrenia. Similar cases were characteristically observed during adolescence, study emerged suggesting that “adolescent paranoia” (Murakami), distinct However, terms “Jikoshu-Taiken” experience; Kasahara et al.) “Jikoshu-Sho” syndrome; Miyamoto) proposed emphasize nosological Considered culture-bound unique or East Asia, Jikoshu received little attention apart 1971 olfactory reference (Pryse-Phillips), presents similar symptoms. recent years, research has placed disorder within obsessive-compulsive spectrum, been adopted an ICD-11 under “olfactory disorder.”