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Acne excoriée—a case report of treatment using habit reversal
Author(s) -
KENT A.,
DRUMMOND L.M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1989.tb00918.x
Subject(s) - acne , dermatology , medicine , neuroticism , habit , psychiatry , psychotherapist , psychology , personality , psychoanalysis
Summary Acne excoriée is a sell‐intflicted skin condition in which the sufferer has an urge to pick real or imagined acnieform lesions and which results in a worsening and spreading of the acne. 1 The condition differs from most artefactual dermatoses as the patient usually spontaneously admits the self‐inflicted nature of the condition. Although this condition is considered to he a neurotic manifestation of the patient, traditional psychiatric treatments have proved unsuccessful. 2