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Retired Husband Syndrome

Clinical and Motivational Phenomena

Retired husband syndrome is a psychosomatic stress-related illness recognized in Japanese culture and estimated to occur in sixty percent of the older female population, in which a woman begins to exhibit signs of physical illness and depression as her husband reaches or approaches retirement.

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Classification
Type of Phenomenon
Emotional Phenomenon 1
Diagnostic Chapter
Disorders Specifically Associated with Stress 1
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Retired husband syndrome
  • Wikipedia Retired husband syndrome lead paragraph: psychosomatic stress-related illness recognized in Japanese culture
  • en.wikipedia.org: Retired husband syndrome
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