Psychogenic Deafness Resources

➡️ Research Studies

Polish study of 22 patients with psychogenic deafness:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11737051/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

South Korean study of 9 patients with sudden onset of hearing loss with psychogenic causes:
https://aao-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.otohns.2005.11.045

Japanese study of 38 juveniles with functional "psychogerlic " deafness:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316821928_Juvenile_functional_deafness_psychogerlic_deafness_and_examination_deafness

Japanese study of 21 children with psychogenic hearing loss (often also experiencing psychogenic visual disturbances):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272646741_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_in_Children

Austrian study of 21 children with psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/21726744_Psychogenic_hearing_disorders_in_childhood_and_adolescence

Japanese study of 20 patients with psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316807975_A_clinical_examination_of_psychogenic_hearing_loss

Israeli study of 30 cases of non-organic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22305776_Cochlear_Brain_Stem_and_Cortical_Evoked_Responses_in_Nonorganic_Hearing_Loss

Japanese study of 60 cases of functional hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13264639_Functional_Hearing_Loss_in_Children_Who_Were_Not_Aware_of_Their_Hearing_Loss

German study of 20 patients with psychogenic hearing disturbances:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/9018741_Diagnosis_of_psychogenic_hearing_disorders_in_childhood

Chinese study of 7 teenagers with non-organic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5571329_Non-organic_hearing_loss_in_Chinese_teenagers

Japanese of 277 patients with hearing loss, 2.5% with psychogenic sudden deafness:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7051316_A_Clinical_Analysis_of_Psychogenic_Sudden_Deafness

Serbian study about psychogenic hearing impairment:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23387972_Psychogenic_hearing_impairment_in_differential_diagnosis_of_sudden_hearing_loss

Swiss study of 40 subjects diagnosed with non-organic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/41761877_Non-organic_hearing_loss_New_and_confirmed_findings

Turkish study of functional hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/388373948_Functional_Hearing_Loss

Russian study of non-organic hearing loss in combatants:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378791222_Diagnostics_of_non-organic_hearing_loss_in_combatants

Japanese study of 9 acute psychogenic hearing loss cases:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272648868_Nine_Acute_Cases_of_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss

➡️ Treatment

Psychotherapy for Psychogenic Hearing Loss
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271350350_Psychotherapy_for_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss

Relationship between the timing of elimination of triggers and the length of time for hearing improvement in non-organic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330432483_Relationship_between_the_timing_of_elimination_of_triggers_and_the_length_of_time_for_hearing_improvement_in_non-organic_hearing_loss

Japanese treatment of 30 children with psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316812463_A_retrospective_study_of_psychogenic_hearing_loss_in_children

Behavioral treatment of psychogenic deafness:
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F0090-5550.49.3.268

➡️ Case Studies

Japanese case studies of 2 girls with psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269650449_Two_Cases_of_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_Accompanied_by_Otalgia

Case study of psychogenic deafness and nonepileptic seizures:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261184891_Simultaneous_nonepileptic_spells_and_nonorganic_hearing_loss_A_case_of_comorbid_psychogenic_symptoms

MORE RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND IN THE PINNED COMMENT BELOW
(I will add resources as I find more)

Indonesian Case Study - woman in stressful marriage:
https://journal.maranatha.edu/index.php/humanitas/article/view/8915

Japanese case studies of 2 females with psychogenic hearing loss combined with psychogenic aphonia (loss of voice):
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269878164_Two_Cases_of_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_Combined_with_Aphonia

UK Case Study - Soldier:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235602421_Non-organic_Hearing_Loss

Czechia Case Study - Teenage boy:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292476991_Psychogenic_disorder_on_hearing_in_children

Swiss Case Studies - 4 cochlear implant candidates with psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273149439_Cochlear_implant_candidates_with_psychogenic_hearing_loss

Canadian case study of child with conversion disorder presenting as sudden sensorineural hearing loss:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016558760500145X

Chinese case study of psychogenic hearing loss induced by gunshot noise:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51841350_A_Case_of_Sudden_Unilateral_Sensorineural_Hearing_Loss_With_Contralateral_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_Induced_by_Gunshot_Noise

Japanese case study of middle-aged woman:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296437360_A_case_of_psychogenic_hearing_loss_suggestive_of_sudden_hearing_loss

Japanese case studies of 2 men in their 20s:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270084220_Two_Cases_of_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_in_Adults

Case study of child whose psychogenic hearing loss improved after a hearing aid trial:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375155261_A_Case_of_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_in_a_Child_Whose_Hearing_Improved_After_a_Hearing_Aid_Trialbutingqishiyongwoqijitoshitetingligagaishanshitaxiaoerxinyinxingnantingli

Case study of child with psychogenic hearing loss after three contusions in the ear:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271407862_Unilateral_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_due_to_Contusion_of_the_Ear_in_Childhood_A_Case_Report

Case studies of 2 children with sudden onset of psychogenic hearing loss:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/274657053_Unilateral_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_in_Childhood_A_Report_of_Two_Cases

Case study of female with psychogenic hearing loss combined with a panic attack:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/11472744_Psychogenic_Hearing_Loss_with_Panic_Anxiety_Attack_after_the_Onset_of_Acute_Inner_Ear_Disorder

Taiwan case studies of 2 stressed university students with conversion deafness:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6923130_Conversion_Deafness_Presenting_as_Sudden_Hearing_Loss

Conversion disorder as a means of escape (Australian case study):
https://www.clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijpp/international-journal-of-psychology-and-psychoanalysis-ijpp-4-026.php?jid=ijpp

Conversion deafness in a cochlear implant patient:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/cim.2003.4.Supplement-1.19

➡️ Terminology

An argument for the term “pseudohypacusis”:
https://www.audiology.org/news-and-publications/audiology-today/articles/the-terminology-of-false-and-exaggerated-hearing-loss/

Other terms for this condition include “non-organic hearing loss (NOHL),” “functional hearing loss,” “pseudohypacusis,” “hysterical hearing loss,” “conversion hearing loss,” "malingering,” “feigning,” “psychogenic deafness,” “simulated hearing loss,” and “dissociative deafness.”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK580555/#:~:text=Other%20terms%20for%20this%20condition,Many%20nonorganic%20functional%20hearing%20loss

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35593862/