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Psychotherapeutic Strategy and Neurotic Excoriations
Author(s) -
Fruensgaard Kjeld
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-4362.1991.tb03851.x
Subject(s) - medicine , neuroticism , psychotherapist , intervention (counseling) , neurotic disorders , psychiatry , psychology , psychoanalysis , personality
Abstract: This article sketches the planning of psychotherapy as a treatment for neurotic excoriations (NE). The program is developed on the basis of information collected in an investigation of 63 consecutive, first‐time referrals of NE patients to a dermatology department, and the findings from a follow‐up after 1 to 5 years. The offer of social advice and support, but not psychotherapy, was included in the investigation program. At the time of follow‐up, NE had healed for 13 of the 63 patients. The information gathered indicates that a treatment model should be eclectic in form so as to allow for individual variances in, for example, age, intelligence level, and motivation for psychiatric intervention.