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Dhat Syndrome: Unusual Manifestation in a Distinct Cultural Context.
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Dhat syndrome is a culture-bound syndrome that presents with concerns about semen loss. This is a case of a 38-year-old Indian male who was brought to our psychiatric emergency department in Dubai, United Arab Emirates due to concerns of dizziness, excessive worry, and preoccupation with health. He reported somatic symptoms of left lumbar pain and passage of small, white stones during urination a few weeks before presentation.
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Dhat syndrome presenting as a psychiatric emergency: A very rare case report.
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Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Kashmir, Government Medical College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India E-mail:
Dhat Syndrome East and West: A History in Two Acts.
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December 2024
Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
The intriguing story of dhat syndrome is that of medical modernity (psychiatry, clinical sexology) declaring medical premodernity (Ayurvedic concepts of semen loss) as its object. The early history and prehistory of this "culture-bound" diagnosis help understanding it as a dynamic confrontation of local, shifting knowledges. For instance, semen loss anxiety was an established motif both in European early twentieth-century psychoanalysis and again in several Indian psychodynamic texts of the 1960s.
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