[Preliminary approach to the mental component in dermatologic patients]

G Ital Dermatol Venereol. 1989 Apr;124(4):147-50.
[Article in Italian]

Abstract

The aim of this study was to approach on a psychical point of view 27 patients suffering from chronic idiopathic urticaria (14), pruritus sine materia (6), alopecia areata (3), pathomimia (4), in order to examine the possibility that psychic disorders could act as triggering or aggravating the dermatological affection. Psychical assessment was evaluated by colloquy and by the administration of some psychodiagnostic tests: EPI, MMPI, Zung. The role of psychogenic factors in skin diseases is emphasized and the results obtained from the use of antidepressant and minor tranquilizer drugs are discussed.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Alopecia Areata / etiology
  • Alopecia Areata / psychology
  • Anti-Anxiety Agents / therapeutic use
  • Antidepressive Agents / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Humans
  • MMPI
  • Male
  • Mental Disorders / complications*
  • Mental Disorders / diagnosis
  • Mental Disorders / drug therapy
  • Personality Inventory
  • Pruritus / etiology
  • Pruritus / psychology
  • Skin Diseases / etiology
  • Skin Diseases / psychology*
  • Urticaria / etiology
  • Urticaria / psychology

Substances

  • Anti-Anxiety Agents
  • Antidepressive Agents