THE PHAGOPHOBIA SYNDROME - A FURTHER SUBTYPE OF ANXIETY DISORDERS

Since the introduction of the modern psychiatric diagnosis systems anx iety disorders have been intensively discussed. As clinical subtypes i n panic disorder the cardial type and the vestibular type are widely a ccepted. We describe in a case report another of these subtyps, the ph aryngeal type; it is characterised by symptoms that are related to the pharynx such as feeling a lump in the throat, swallow disturbance or pain in the pharynx region. It may therefore be called ''throat-anxiet y syndrome'' or ''phagophobia''. Nosological implications are also dis cussed.