Disgust: the forgotten emotion of Psychiatry

M.L. Phillips; Carl Senior; T. Fahy; A.S. David

doi:10.1192/bjp.172.5.373

Disgust: the forgotten emotion of Psychiatry

M.L. Phillips
, Carl Senior
, T. Fahy
, A.S. David

School of Psychology

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Abstract

Argues that the basic emotion of disgust is important not only to many aspects of daily life but also is central to a range of psychiatric phenomena. Specific topics discussed include psychoanalytic theories, the biology of disgust, the neurology of emotion perception, and disgust and obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, depression, eating disorders, and other psychiatric disorders.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	373-375
Number of pages	3
Journal	British Journal of Psychiatry
Volume	172
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.172.5.373
Publication status	Published - May 1998

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