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Tokophobia: A dread of pregnancy

Author(s) -

ManjeetSingh Bhatia,

Anurag Jhanjee

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

industrial psychiatry journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 0976-2795

pISSN - 0972-6748

DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.119649

Subject(s) - childbirth , pregnancy , pathological , obstetrics , fluoxetine , depression (economics) , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , event (particle physics) , genetics , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , biology , receptor , macroeconomics , serotonin

Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth. It can be classified as primary or secondary. Primary is morbid fear of childbirth in a woman, who has no previous experience of pregnancy. Secondary is morbid fear of childbirth developing after a traumatic obstetric event in a previous pregnancy. A case of tokophobia with depression who responded to fluoxetine is being described.

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