Abstract
Introduction: Psychogenic urinary retention is defined as urinary retention with no objective evidence of organic disease, in the setting of psychologic trauma. It is a diagnosis of exclusion and most commonly presents in young females with psychiatric histories.
Case Presentation: A 17 year old female with an extensive past psychiatric history presents to the Pediatric emergency department (ED) with one month of urinary retention. After excluding medical, urologic, and neurologic causes, it was determined that the cause of her retention was psychogenic in etiology, stemming from her remote history of sexual abuse from the time she was five to 15 years old.
