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Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis

Body dysmorphic disorder is an under-recognized chronic problem that has been established as an independent diagnostic entity. Its clinical features, comorbidity, course, and prognosis have been studied in detail. But, the issue of its psychotic and non-psychotic variants and the question of dimensi...

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Autores principales: Raman, K, Ponnudurai, R, Ravindran, O S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574566
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.124725
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description Body dysmorphic disorder is an under-recognized chronic problem that has been established as an independent diagnostic entity. Its clinical features, comorbidity, course, and prognosis have been studied in detail. But, the issue of its psychotic and non-psychotic variants and the question of dimensional or categorical method of classifying this disorder still pose a diagnostic dilemma. This case report tries to highlight this issue.
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spelling pubmed-39272542014-02-26 Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis Raman, K Ponnudurai, R Ravindran, O S Indian J Psychiatry Case Report Body dysmorphic disorder is an under-recognized chronic problem that has been established as an independent diagnostic entity. Its clinical features, comorbidity, course, and prognosis have been studied in detail. But, the issue of its psychotic and non-psychotic variants and the question of dimensional or categorical method of classifying this disorder still pose a diagnostic dilemma. This case report tries to highlight this issue. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3927254/ /pubmed/24574566 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.124725 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
title Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
title_full Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
title_fullStr Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
title_full_unstemmed Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
title_short Body dysmorphic disorder: Borderline category between neurosis and psychosis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3927254/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24574566
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5545.124725
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