title: DSM-5 Update in Psychodermatology.
abstract: Up to a third of dermatology outpatients have a significant psychiatric issue complicating their skin complaint. Although the ideal would frequently involve psychiatric assessment, those with comorbid mental illness often refuse psychiatric referral. As a result, it is imperative that dermatologists be mindful of psychiatric comorbidity in their patients and comfortable with the fundamentals of psychodermatologic diagnosis and therapy. This update summarizes current concepts, relevance, and therapeutics in psychodermatology, including aspects pertinent to depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, impulse-control, and delusional disorders as described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition (DSM-5, published in 2013 by the American Psychiatric Association).
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Nowak
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Wong
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D015897:Comorbidity; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D006801:Humans; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000523:psychology*