Localization of self-inflicted dermatological lesions: what do they tell the dermatologist?

Acta Derm Venereol Suppl (Stockh)

Psychiatric Department, University Hospital of the State University, Ghent, Belgium.

Published: July 1991

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The dissimulating attitude of factitious patients creates the need for objective clinical features which cannot be faked and which have a genuine value for the psychiatric diagnosis and prognosis. The psychiatric significance of the localization of self-inflicted dermatological lesions is investigated in four psychiatric areas: the type of life events preceding specific localizations, underlying psychiatric profiles that are characteristic for a given localization, differential response to treatment and psychiatric sequels.

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