"Durking" as a manifestation of attraction to experience (sensory thirst)
https://doi.org/10.24884/2219-8245-2026-18-2-49-55
Abstract
The article is devoted to a recent internet phenomenon that has rapidly spread among young people. The authors consider "dorking" to be a disorder of drives, classifying it as a pathological disorder of the drive for impressions (satisfaction of sensory cravings). They point out the negative aspects of this disorder, which requires active medical and social preventive measures.
About the Authors
I. V. Dobryakov
V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology of the Russian Ministry of Health; Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher at the V.M. Bekhterev National Medical Research Center for Psychiatry and Neurology of the Russian Ministry of Health; Professor at the Department of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology at the Faculty of General and Clinical Psychology at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis
St. Petersburg
Moscow
M. V. Romanovskaya
S.S. Mnukhin Center for Children's Psychiatry
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Candidate of Medical Sciences, Chief Physician of the S.S. Mnukhin Center for Children's Psychiatry, Chief Pediatric Psychiatrist of the Government of St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Y. A. Fesenko
S.S. Mnukhin Center for Children's Psychiatry
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Center for Child Psychiatry named after S.S. Mnukhin, Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology at the St. Petersburg State Medical University
St. Petersburg
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For citations:
Dobryakov I.V., Romanovskaya M.V., Fesenko Y.A. "Durking" as a manifestation of attraction to experience (sensory thirst). Medical Psychology in Russia. 2026;18(2):48-54. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24884/2219-8245-2026-18-2-49-55
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