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Coprophobia

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Coprophobia is a fear of or aversion to feces or defecation, an attitude that has become something of a cultural taboo among humans. In the animal world many herbivorous grazing animals, including cows, sheep, horses and reindeer, avoid feces when feeding, and primates also prefer to forage away from feces-contaminated areas, an aversion believed to function as a strategy for avoiding infection.

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Type of Phenomenon
Emotional Phenomenon 1
Diagnostic Chapter
Anxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2
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Source Coprophobia (Wikipedia)
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1. Coprophobia (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia Coprophobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)
  • In Branch: Abnormal Psychology, Categories
    Wikipedia article 'Coprophobia' is filed under Category:Phobias.
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2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
World Health Organization
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