Kovács A, Osváth P
Department of Psychiatry, University Medical School, Pécs, Hungary.
Psychopathology. 1998;31(4):220-4. doi: 10.1159/000029043.
Koro is a culture-specific psychiatric disorder occurring primarily in Southeast Asian cultures. It is manifested by acute anxiety associated with the fear of genital retraction, accompanied by fear of death induced by the thought that complete disappearance of the genital organ will result in death. Koro has been described in non-Asian patients as well, leading to a debate concerning the culture-specific nature of the syndrome. Giving a psychopathological, nosological definition of this peculiar syndrome is also problematic. In this paper, we report a case of koro in a young, Korean female patient. We briefly present the etiological factors related to the development of the syndrome and the most significant psychopathological characteristics.
缩阳症是一种主要出现在东南亚文化中的特定文化相关的精神障碍。它表现为与生殖器回缩恐惧相关的急性焦虑，并伴有因认为生殖器完全消失会导致死亡而引发的死亡恐惧。非亚洲患者中也有缩阳症的描述，这引发了关于该综合征特定文化性质的争论。对这种特殊综合征进行精神病理学、疾病分类学定义也存在问题。在本文中，我们报告了一名年轻韩国女性患者的缩阳症病例。我们简要介绍了与该综合征发展相关的病因因素以及最显著的精神病理学特征。
