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N Ahuja

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PubMed1990

Dhat syndrome. A sex neurosis of the Indian subcontinent.

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.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1989

A study of psychiatrically normal children in a hospital based child guidance clinic.

A total of 1330 children who attended a hospital-based child guidance clinic in last three years were studied retrospectively. 7.37% of these were found to have no psychiatric disorder. Epilepsy and scholastic backwardness without any psychiatric disorder, together constituted 70.41% of this group. Children referred to a child guidance clinic require proper assessment to detect psychiatrically normal children who would otherwise receive unnecessary label of psychiatric disorder and treatment.

Child↗