Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry
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J Behav Ther Exp Psychiatry · Mar 1991
Case ReportsBehavioral treatment of a case of psychogenic urinary retention.
The case involved a thirteen-year-old girl with a history of different urological disorders who since the age of four showed several rituals associated with micturition as well as progressively intense urinary retention. Micturition occupied 2 to 12 hours a day. ⋯ Normality is attained after 7 weeks treatment and maintained at 18 months follow-up. Psychiatric diagnosis is simple phobia to micturition.