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The British Journal of Psychiatry 156: 577-579 (1990)
© 1990 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Dhat syndrome. A sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent

RK Chadda and N Ahuja
Department of Psychiatry, University College of Medical Sciences, Delhi, India.

Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent. Fifty-two patients with a presenting complaint of passage of 'Dhat' in urine were studied. Diagnosis of neurotic depression, anxiety neurosis, hypochondriacal neurosis, and psychogenic impotence were made in 21, 19, 3, and 1 cases respectively. Seven patients received the diagnosis of pure Dhat syndrome, and one of gonorrhoea.


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