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Social Phobia Secondary to Pathological Sweating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Matthew J. Edlund
Matthew J. Edlund*
Affiliation:
Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, APC Building, 9th Floor, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02903, USA
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Abstract

An individual with agenesis of the corpus callosum associated with recurrent severe sweating and hypothermia developed a social phobia. Phobias may be adaptations to real and potentially dangerous physiological events.

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Brief Report
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 155 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 403 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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