Scientific, peer-reviewed studies (published articles) on emetophobia in chronological order. Type of study done is described only if not evident from the title or publication. Non-English language studies are noted under “type.”
If you are interested in research, it’s best to begin by contacting Dr. David Veale in London, UK.
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| ARTICLE | TYPE | |
| 1974 | Wijesinghe, B. ‘A vomiting phobia overcome by one session of flooding with hypnosis.’ Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. | Case study (flooding) |
| 1979 | Ritow, J. K. ‘Brief Treatment of a Vomiting Phobia.’ American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. | Case study (hypnosis) |
| 1983 | McFadyen, M., and Wyness, J. ‘You Don’t Have to be Sick to be a Behaviour Therapist but it can Help!’ Treatment of a “Vomit” Phobia.’ Behavioural Psychotherapy. | Case study (exposure using simulation) |
| 1984 | Klonoff, E. A., Knell, S. M., and Janata, J. W. Fear of nausea and vomiting: The interaction among psychosocial stressors, development transitions, and adventitious reinforcement. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology. | theoretical review |
| 1985 | Philips, H. ‘Return of fear in the treatment of a fear of vomiting.’ Behaviour Research and Therapy 23, 1, 45–52. | (group CBT/ERP) |
| 1990 | Manassis, K., and Kalman, E. ‘Anorexia Resulting from Fear of Vomiting in Four Adolescent Girls.’ The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 35, 6, 548–550. | |
| 1993 | Herman, D. S., Rozensky, R. H., and Mineka, S. Cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder with a primary fear of vomiting: conceptual and treatment issues. Proceedings for Association for Advancement of Behaviour Therapy. | |
| 1994 | de Jongh, A., and ten Broeke, E. ‘Notable Changes After One Session of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: A Case of Fear of Nausea and Vomiting.’ Directieve Therapie, 14(2), 46-52. | Case study – Netherlands (EMDR) |
| 1994 | McKenzie, S. ‘Hypnotherapy for vomiting phobia in a 40-year-old woman.’ Contemporary Hypnosis 11(1), 37–40. | Case study (hypnosis) |
| 2001 | Lipsitz J.D., Fyer, A.J., Paterniti, A., Klein, D.F. ‘Emetophobia: preliminary results of an internet survey.’ Depress Anxiety. | Internet Survey |
| 2003 | Dattilio, F. M. ‘Emetic Exposure and Desensitization Procedures in the Reduction of Nausea and a Fear of Emesis.’ Clinical Case Studies, 2, 3, 199–210. | Case Study (Exposure/ desensitization using Ipecac) |
| 2005 | Moran, D. J., and O’Brien, R. M. ‘Competence Imagery: A Case study Treating Emetophobia.’ Psychological Reports. | |
| 2006 | Veale, D., and Lambrou, C. ‘The Psychopathology of Vomit Phobia.’ Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. | |
| 2006 | Baeyens, C., and Philippot, P. ‘L’émétophobie: Un cas particulier de phobie intéroceptive? [Emetophobia: A special case of interoceptive phobia?].’ Revue Francophone de Clinique Comportementale et Cognitive. | Theoretical review – French |
| 2006 | Whitton, Luiselli, J. K., and Donaldson, D. L. (2006). ‘Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Generalized Anxiety.’ Clinical Case Studies. | (emetophobia misdiagnosed as GAD) |
| 2007 | Davidson, A. L., Boyle, C., and Lauchlan, F. ‘Scared to lose control? General and health locus of control in females with a phobia of vomiting.’ Journal of Clinical Psychology. | |
| 2007 | Boschen, M. J. ‘Reconceptualizing emetophobia: A cognitive–behavioral formulation and research agenda.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | |
| 2008 | Van Overveld, M., De Jong, P. J., Peters, M. L., Van Hout, W. J., and Bouman, T. K. ‘An internet-based study on the relation between disgust sensitivity and emetophobia.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | |
| 2009 | Hunter, P. V., and Antony, M. M. ‘Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Emetophobia: The Role of Interoceptive Exposure.’ Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. | Case study |
| 2009 | Veale, D. ‘Cognitive behaviour therapy for a specific phobia of vomiting.’ The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist. | |
| 2010 | Graziano, P. A., Callueng, C. M., and Geffken, G. R. ‘Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of an 11-Year-Old Male Presenting With Emetophobia: A Case study.’ Clinical Case Studies. | |
| 2010 | Pearson, Megan R. ‘Characteristics, Correlates, and Experiences of Emetophobia: An Exploratory Study.’ Theses and dissertations. Paper 1480. | Doctoral Dissertation |
| 2011 | Leite, C. E. P., Vicentini, H. C., Neves, J. D. S., and Torres, A. R. ‘Emetofobia: revisão crítica sobre um transtorno pouco estudado.’ [Emetophobia: A Critical Review of an Understudied Disorder.] Jornal Brasileiro de Psiquiatria, | critical review – Brazil |
| 2011 | Vandereycken, W. ‘Media Hype, Diagnostic Fad or Genuine Disorder? Professionals’ Opinions About Night Eating Syndrome, Orthorexia, Muscle Dysmorphia, and Emetophobia.’ Eating Disorders. | |
| 2011 | Williams, K. E., Field, D. G., Riegel, K., and Paul, C. ‘Brief, Intensive Behavioral Treatment of Food Refusal Secondary to Emetophobia.’ Clinical Case Studies. | |
| 2011 | Kobori, O. ‘Cognitive therapy for vomit phobia: a case report.’ Asia Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. | Case study – Japanese (cognitive therapy) |
| 2012 | Veale, D., Costa, A., Murphy, P., and Ellison, N. ‘Abnormal Eating Behaviour in People with a Specific Phobia of Vomiting (Emetophobia).’ European Eating Disorders Review. | |
| 2012 | Price, K., Veale, D., and Brewin, C. R. ‘Intrusive imagery in people with a specific phobia of vomiting.’ Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. | |
| 2012 | de Jongh A. ‘Treatment of a woman with emetophobia: a trauma focused approach.’ Mental illness | |
| 2011 | van Hout, W. J., and Bouman, T. K. ‘Clinical features, prevalence and psychiatric complaints in subjects with fear of vomiting.’ Clinical psychology and psychotherapy | Survey (Dutch) |
| 2013 | Kerr, C. ‘TA Treatment of Emetophobia: A Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design Study – ‘Peter’.’ International Journal of Transactional Analysis Research and Practice. | |
| 2013 | Faye, A., Gawande, S., Tadke, R., Kirpekar, V., and Bhave, S. ‘Emetophobia: A fear of vomiting.’ Indian Journal of Psychiatry. | |
| 2013 | Veale, D., Ellison, N., Boschen, M.J., Costa, A., et al. ‘Development of an Inventory to Measure Specific Phobia of Vomiting (Emetophobia).’ Cogn Ther Res. | |
| 2013 | Maack, D. J., Deacon, B. J., and Zhao, M. ‘Exposure therapy for emetophobia: A case study with three-year follow-up.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | |
| 2013 | Boschen, M. J., Veale, D., Ellison, N., and Reddell, T. ‘The emetophobia questionnaire (EmetQ-13): Psychometric validation of a measure of specific phobia of vomiting (emetophobia).’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | |
| 2013 | Höller, Y., Overveld, M. V., Jutglar, H., and Trinka, E. ‘Nausea in Specific Phobia of Vomiting.’ Behavioral Science | Internet survey (German) |
| 2014 | Zhao, Mimi. ‘Toward A Conceptualization of Emetophobia: Examining Intolerance Of Uncertainty As A Unique Predictor Of Symptoms.’ Electronic Theses and Dissertations. | Master’s Thesis |
| 2014 | Veale, D., Murphy, P., Ellison, N., Kanakam, N., and Costa, A. ‘Autobiographical memories of vomiting in people with a specific phobia of vomiting (emetophobia).’ Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry | |
| 2014 | Snæbjarnardóttir, K., and Sigurðsson, E. ‘Emetophobia: sjúklegur ótti við uppköst og ógleði.’ Læknablaðið. | Case study – Iceland |
| 2015 | Benoit, Jean-Pierre. ‘Quand la phobie s’empare du corps: à propos de l’émétophobie [When Phobia Takes Hold of the Body: About Emetophobia].’ Enfances & Psy. | Overview – French |
| 2015 | Wu, M. S., Rudy, B. M., Arnold, E. B., and Storch, E. A. ‘Phenomenology, Clinical Correlates, and Impairment in Emetophobia.’ Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy. | |
| 2015 | Ahlen, J., Edberg, E., Di Schiena, M., and Bergström, J. ‘Cognitive behavioural group therapy for emetophobia: An open study in a psychiatric setting.’ Clinical Psychologist. | |
| 2015 | Veale, D., Hennig, C., and Gledhill, L. ‘Is a specific phobia of vomiting part of the obsessive compulsive and related disorders?’ Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. | |
| 2015 | Brunner, J. ‘Emetophobie bei einem jungen Mann. [Emetophobia in a young man].’ Psychotherapeut. | Case study – German |
| 2016 | Riddle-Walker, L., Veale, D., Chapman, C., Ogle, F., Rosko, D., Najmi, S., Walker, L. M., Maceachern, P., and Hicks, T. ‘Cognitive behaviour therapy for specific phobia of vomiting (Emetophobia): A pilot randomized controlled trial.’ Journal of Anxiety Disorders. | Randomized Controlled Trial |
| 2016 | Fix, R. L., Proctor, K. B., and Gray, W. N. ‘Treating Emetophobia and Panic Symptoms in an Adolescent Female.’ Clinical Case Studies. | Case study (Adolescent: Rx + CBT) |
| 2016 | Sykes, M., Boschen, M. J., and Conlon, E. G. ‘Comorbidity in Emetophobia (Specific Phobia of Vomiting).’ Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. | |
| 2016 | Verwoerd, J., van Hout, W. J., and De Jong, P. J. ‘Disgust- and anxiety-based emotional reasoning in non-clinical fear of vomiting.’ Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. | |
| 2016 | Wu, M. S., Selles, R. R., Novoa, J. C., Zepeda, et al. ‘Examination of the Phenomenology and Clinical Correlates of Emetophobia in a Sample of Salvadorian Youths.’ Child Psychiatry and Human Development. | |
| 2016 | Paulus, D. J., and Norton, P. J. ‘Purging Anxiety: A Case study of Transdiagnostic CBT for a Complex Fear of Vomiting (Emetophobia).’ Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. | Case study |
| 2016 | van Hout, W., and Bouman, T. ‘Imagery and core beliefs in fear of vomiting.’ 8th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies, Melbourne, Australia. | Convention Presentation (Australia) |
| 2017 | Dosanjh, Sarabpreet et al. ‘I think I’m Going to be Sick: An Eight-Year-Old Boy with Emetophobia and Secondary Food Restriction.’ Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l’Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. | case study |
| 2017 | Gormez, V., Meral, Y., and Orengul, A.’ Emetophobia (specific phobia of vomiting): Its Relationship with Anxiety-related Disorders and Cognitive Behavioral Therapeutic Approach.’ Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research. | Theoretical Review – Istanbul, Turkey |
| 2017 | Roy, D. ‘Emetophobia (a specific phobia of vomiting): A case study.’ European Psychiatry. | |
| 2017 | Maertens, C., Couturier, J., Grant, C., and Johnson, N. ‘Fear of Vomiting and Low Body Weight in Two Pediatric Patients: Diagnostic Challenges.’ Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l’Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent. | |
| 2017 | Veale, D., and Keyes, A. ‘Atypical Eating Disorders and Specific Phobia of Vomiting: Clinical Presentation and Treatment Approaches.’ In L.K. Anderson, S.B. Murray, and W.H. Kaye (Eds.), Clinical Handbook of Complex and Atypical Eating Disorders. Oxford University Press. | |
| 2018 | Dargis, M., and Burk, L. ‘A Transdiagnostic Approach to the Treatment of Emetophobia: A Single Case study.’ Clinical Case Studies. | |
| 2018 | Liebenberg, A., and Dos Santos, M. ‘Health-related subjective well-being with emetophobia.’ Journal of Psychology in Africa. | Assessment – African |
| 2018 | Simons, M., and Vloet, T. D. ‘Emetophobia – A Metacognitive Therapeutic Approach for an Overlooked Disorder.’ Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie. | Case study – Germany |
| 2018 | Nakamura, M., and Kitanishi, K. ‘Morita therapy for the treatment of emetophobia: A case report.’ Asia-Pacific Psychiatry. | Case study – Japan |
| 2018 | Bogusch, L. M., Moeller, M. T., and O’Brien, W. H. ‘Case study of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Functional Analysis for Emetophobia.’ Clinical Case Studies. | |
| 2018 | Keyes, A., Gilpin, H. R., and Veale, D. ‘Phenomenology, epidemiology, co-morbidity and treatment of a specific phobia of vomiting: A systematic review of an understudied disorder.’ Clinical Psychology Review | Systematic review |
| 2018 | Maack, D.J., Ebesutani, C., and Smitherman, T.A. ‘Psychometric investigation of the Specific Phobia of Vomiting Inventory: A new factor model.’ International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research. | |
| 2019 | Petell, Jennifer Arden. ‘Behavioral Similarities And Differences Among Symptoms Of Emetophobia, Disordered Eating, And Disgust.’ Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1937. | Master’s thesis |
| 2019 | Salgado, M.E. ‘Someone Could Be Sick. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for a Specific Phobia of Vomiting (Emetophobia): A Study Case. REVISTA ARGENTINA DE CLINICA PSICOLOGICA. | Argentina |
| 2019 | Mitamura, T. ‘Case study of Clinical Behavior Analysis for a 20-Year-Old Patient with Emetophobia.’ Clinical Case Studies. | |
| 2020 | Kannappan, A., and Middleman, A. B. ‘Emetophobia: A case of nausea leading to dehydration in an adolescent female.’ SAGE Open Medical Case Reports. | |
| 2020 | Mircea, M. M. ‘Employing Long Short-Term Memory Networks in Trigger Detection for Emetophobia.’ Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Informatica. | Romania – studied and created an API and Chrome extension to censor emetophobia-triggering words. |
| 2020 | Keyes, A., Veale, A., Foster, C., and Veale, D. ‘Time intensive cognitive behavioural therapy for a specific phobia of vomiting: A single case experimental design. ‘Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry. | |
| 2022 | Zickgraf, H. F., Loftus, P., Gibbons, B., Cohen, L. C., and Hunt, M. G. ‘If I could survive without eating, it would be a huge relief: Development and initial validation of the Fear of Food Questionnaire.’ Appetite. | Assessment Instrument |
| 2022 | Orme, K., Challacombe, F., and Roxborough, A. ‘Specific fear of vomiting (SPOV) in early parenthood: Assessment and treatment considerations with two illustrative cases.’ The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist 15, E12. |