Treatment of body-dysmorphic disorder with serotonin reuptake blockers.
The authors describe five patients with body-dysmorphic disorder who responded preferentially to serotonin reuptake blockers. They review the literature, describe how patients with excessive concern about body abnormalities lie along a spectrum of doubt and certainty, and discuss similarities and differences between this disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Hollander
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Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.
Liebowitz
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Winchel
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Klumker
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Klein
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D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D002997:Clomipramine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005473:Fluoxetine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*
D005473:Fluoxetine; D002997:Clomipramine