Trichotemnomania F63.3
History
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Brown Falco, 1968
Definition
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Compulsive cutting of hair in circumscribed areas in psychoneurotically disturbed patients. This feigning of alopecia is usually interpreted as a disorder in which the affected persons want to take on a patient role.
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Occurrence/Epidemiology
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Accompanying illness with artifacts and psychoses.
Clinic
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Often symmetrical pseudoalopecia with hair stubble of normal density that appears to be shaved.
Therapy
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Psychiatric or psychological counselling and treatment, if necessary.
Literature
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- Brown Falco O, bird PG (1968) Trichotemnomania. A special skin manifestation of a cerebral-organic psycho-syndrome. dermatologist 19: 551-553
- Meiers HG (1971) Trichotemnomania. dermatologist 22: 335-337
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