Open AccessTokophobia: A dread of pregnancy
Author(s) -
M S Bhatia,
Anurag Jhanjee
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/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.