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The present study aimed at ascertaining the effect of psychoastrotherapy (psychotherapy and astrotherapy) on phobic patients. Hundred (100) phobic patients were consisted for this study out of these 50 treated and 50 non-treated patients were evaluated at S. I. Mental & Physical Health Society (SIMPHS) Varanasi (India). The two groups were matched on age range of13 to 25 years with a mean age of 15.27 years and their mean length of abnormal fear was 3.5 years. Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire (M.H.Q.) was administered to ascertain mental health on six selected variables viz: free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, somatization, depression and hysteria. Mean scores obtained on different variables were analyzed using t-test of significance. Results indicate that the characteristics associated with non-treated phobic patients were free floating anxiety, obsession, phobia, depression and hysteria and the characteristics associated with treated phobic patients is somatization. Fifty patients were treated for six months and they were requested to attend centre for six months of follow-up. After six months of follow-up only thirty six patients were reported that they did not feel any kind of phobic symptoms