PMID: 9640982Jun 26, 1998Paper

Body dysmorphic disorder: clinical picture, diagnostic criteria, prevalence, course and treatment

Psychiatria polska
J Rabe-Jabłońska

Abstract

The article presents historical conceptions of dysmorphphobia and a review of recent references concerning aetiology, criteria for diagnosis of this disorder in new classifications of mental disorders (DSM-IV and ICD-10), course, and proposition of treatment. The author described characteristic personality traits of patients with dysmorphophobia and mental disorders, which are very often comorbid with this disorder (obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, delusional disorder-somatic type) and mental disorders in first-degree relatives of persons with dysmorphophobia.

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