Neurotic disorders

... of each type, he explains. For starters, he says psychophysiological disorders include skin conditions that flare with emotional stress. Examples ... a psychiatric disorder that causes them to perhaps pick their skin (neurotic excoriation) or pull out their hair (trichotillomania). Delusions ...

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... abstracts at the lovely Psychodermatology Convention: Psychocutaneous Disorders of Hair and Scalp Ralph M. Trüeb, Department of Dermatology, University ... condition, but everything seen is selfinduced, e.g. trichotillomania, neurotic excoriations, factitial dermatitis, (3) cutaneous sensory disorders, ...

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... in New York and an expert on the psychiatric origins of certain skin disorders. "When you look at the pictures of these Morgellons lesions, ... suffering from recurring lesions. "They suggested that maybe I was neurotic," Leitao said of her attempt to have her son examined by infectious ...

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