title: Psychological evaluation of the dermatology patient: a psychoanalyst's perspective.
abstract: Psychoanalysis contributed to the body representation in medicine with a biographic focus in which language, dreams, sexuality, unconscious wishes, and the relationship with the doctor play a fundamental role. In spite of being invisible to the gaze, this anatomy has its fundamental piece on the skin. A piece that has the status-given by Freud-of "erotogenic zone par excellence." In this paper, different levels of psychological/psychiatric functioning and some character types elucidated by psychoanalytic work with dermatology patients are described. Some therapeutic strategies are suggested as a way of orientation to the dermatologist's management of difficult patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathophysiology and Psychosomatic Diseases, Psychology School, Buenos Aires University, Hipólito Yrigoyen 3242 (C1207ABQ) Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Argentine Psychoanalytical Association, Rodríguez Peña 1674 (C1021ABJ) Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. jorgeulnik@gmail.com
authors.forename: Jorge Claudio
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Ulnik
mesh_terms: D003880:Dermatology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy