title: [Psychodermatology: current state of the problem].
abstract: An analysis of comorbidity of psychiatric and dermatological pathology in historical, epidemiological and clinical aspects is presented. Psychocutaneous disorders (delusional parasitosis, hypochondria circumscripta, obsessive-compulsive disorders with self-mutilations, pathomimia) play a central role in systematics elaborated in the present study. The authors suggest that delusional parasitosis is a subtype of paranoiac psychosis (paranoia, paranoiac schizophrenia). Psychiatric disorders triggered by dermatological pathology were specified as nosogenous reactions, depressive reactions with sociophobia, pathologic personality development (paranoiac, sensitive, hypochondriac). Atopic dermatitis, eczema, urticaria, psoriasis, herpes simplex, alopecia areata, rosacea, etc, are regarded among dermatological psychosomatic disorders with psychogenic manifestation/exacerbation.
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Smulevich
authors.forename: O L
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Ivanov
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: L'vov
authors.forename: I Iu
authors.initials: IIu
authors.lastname: Dorozhenok
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*