Psyche und Haut

Psychiatric and Psychometric Issues in Acné excoriée

“…This stress-dependent urge to manipulate the skin has been considered as a kind of neurotic behavior, which led to con ceptualize acné excoriée as a neurotic excoria tion [2,[10][11][12][13]. In line with this assumption, significantly elevated scores of Conversion Hysteria were found in the present study, indicating an increased susceptibility to neu rotic symptoms.…”

“…At present, studies considering psychiatric aspects of acné excoriée are com paratively rare and those available are mostly of anecdotal nature [3,5,16,17]. Further more, most authors refer to psychodynamically oriented psychological constructs that limit any generalizable conclusions [2,[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]17], Thus, the nosological position of acné exco riée as a distinct diagnostic entity -as sup posed by Albrecht and Schônfelder [16] -still remains to be established. The present pilot study was therefore designed to determine the most relevant psychopathological and psycho metric characteristics in acné excoriée pa tients.…”

“…Several authors consid ered acné excoriée as a factitious disorder (dermatitis artefacta) [4][5][6][7][8][9], while others re garded acne excoriée as a neurotic excoriation [10][11][12][13]. In particular, the role of phobic or obsessive-compulsive mechanisms have been discussed for the development of acne excoriée [3,14,15].…”

Psychophysiologische und psychoneuroimmunologische Ergebnisse zur Neurodermitis

“…Kaum ein Organ wird mit psychophysischen Zusammenhängen so häufig in Verbindung gebracht wie die Haut und ihre Erkrankungen, umgangssprachlich wie auch in der psychosomatischen und dermatologischen Literatur [2,9].…”

Psychodermatology

“…Short, well-ordered surveys of the history of psychodermatology can be found elsewhere (Wittkower andRussell, 1953\Obermayer, 1955;Borelli, 1967).…”