[Maybe the way to beauty is compulsion?].
In article was presented characteristic features of mental disorders from spectrum obsessive compulsive disorder, dysmorphic disorder and spectrum impulse control disorders. Dysmorphophobia is a psychiatric disorder characterized by imagined aesthetic defect in physical appearance in spite of visual changes. This paper is a review of the up-to-date knowledge on prevalence, diagnostic criteria and clinical picture of body dysmorphic disorder. The authors underline the connections between this disorder and other disorders, classified by some authors, as a part of the obsessive compulsive disorder spectrum. The problem with distinguishing the psychotic feature of body dysmorphic disorder is presented in this paper.
Ogłodek
Ewa
E
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Collegium Medicum im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy, Katedra i Klinika Psychiatrii. maxeve@interia.pl
Moś
Danuta
D
Marek
Luiza
L
Araszkiewicz
Aleksander
A
Placek
Waldemar
W
D000855:Anorexia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D057215:Body Dysmorphic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D001828:Body Image; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D015984:Causality; D015897:Comorbidity; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D007174:Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence