Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?

Excessive concern about the appearance of one's body is the hallmark of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). A case with recurrent intrusive preoccupation and concern about the appearance of the face, ritualistic behaviours associated with this preoccupation, resulting in social and interpersonal di...

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Autores principales: Aravind, V.K., Krishnaram, V.D.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703349
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31561
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description Excessive concern about the appearance of one's body is the hallmark of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). A case with recurrent intrusive preoccupation and concern about the appearance of the face, ritualistic behaviours associated with this preoccupation, resulting in social and interpersonal difficulties is presented. The difficulty to draw a discrete boundary between BDD and a delusional disorder of somatic type is highlighted.
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spelling pubmed-29156002010-08-11 Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype? Aravind, V.K. Krishnaram, V.D. Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Excessive concern about the appearance of one's body is the hallmark of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). A case with recurrent intrusive preoccupation and concern about the appearance of the face, ritualistic behaviours associated with this preoccupation, resulting in social and interpersonal difficulties is presented. The difficulty to draw a discrete boundary between BDD and a delusional disorder of somatic type is highlighted. Medknow Publications 2006 /pmc/articles/PMC2915600/ /pubmed/20703349 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31561 Text en © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title_full Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title_fullStr Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title_full_unstemmed Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title_short Body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
title_sort body dysmorphic disorder, dysmorphophobia or delusional disorder—somatic subtype?
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20703349
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.31561
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