Pseudocyesis in the Male
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 172 (1) , 37-40
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-198401000-00008
Abstract
This report describes a case of pseudocyesis in a male patient and reviews the literature in pseudocyesis in the male and female. Pseudocyesis is a rare psychiatric syndrome with only about 100 cases reported in females and three in males in the past 45 years. The authors suggest that somatic factors may play a role in the genesis of some cases of pseudocyesis by stimulating pregnancy wishes and interacting with these wishes to set up a psychophysiological interaction leading to the clinical syndrome of pseudocyesis.Keywords
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