DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Special form of dysmorphophobia ( somatoform disorder) with the desire to remain young forever. The term is based on the novel "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde and takes a motif of the work, the inability to age and thus also to mature mentally, as a clinical description.
Occurrence/EpidemiologyThis section has been translated automatically.
About 2-3% of the population is likely to suffer from the described syndrome to varying degrees.
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EtiopathogenesisThis section has been translated automatically.
Interaction between narcissistic tendencies (ageless beauty), problems of psychosexual progression (avoidance of development and maturity) and the use of lifestyle offers in medicine. The clinical picture points beyond the differential-diagnostically important clinical pictures of dysmorphophobia, the narcissistic personality disorder, and thus represents a separate clinical entity.
Clinical featuresThis section has been translated automatically.
Dorian Gray syndrome is associated with narcissistic regression, sociophobia and a strong desire to preserve youthfulness. Often lifestyle drugs are then used to halt the natural ageing process. There is a latent depressiveness with the danger of suicidal crises, whereby the measures of lifestyle medicine are to be understood as "psychological defence against breaking through depressive states".
DiagnosisThis section has been translated automatically.
The following criteria must be fulfilled for a diagnosis to be made:
- Signs of dysmorphophobia
- inability to achieve psychological maturity and psychological developmental steps
- Use of 2 or > 2 of the following lifestyle offers of medicine:
- hair restorer
- Antiadiposita
- Power Resources
- Antidepressants for mood manipulation
- Utilization of the services of cosmetic dermatology
- Utilization of the offers of the aesthetic surgery.
LiteratureThis section has been translated automatically.
- Brähler E et al (2002) Findings and health: psychological aspects of physical complaints. In: Brähler E, Strauß B (ed.) Fields of action in psychosocial medicine. Hogrefe, Göttingen
- Harth W et al (2007) Nihiloderma in psychodermatology. Dermatologist 58: 427-434
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Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer