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The Morbid Fear of being looked at [La Phobie du Regard], (Archives de Neurologic, July, 1905.) Bechterew

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Bechterew, who has studied this question in other articles, records in the present paper with full details three new cases of the “phobie du regard,” or morbid inability to bear being looked at. In these, as in the earlier observations, the salient facts are that the symptom is constantly related to an insane or neurotic heredity, that it frequently develops as an immediate sequence of sexual exhaustion, particularly when brought about by masturbation, and that it is often associated with other phenomena of morbid inhibition, such as the phobia of blushing or the inability to micturate before witnesses. With regard to treatment, the author says that he has got good results from hypnotism combined with hydropathy and with the use of cardiac tonics and codeia

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Part III.—Epitome of Current Literature
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1906 

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