Abstract |
This work presents results of a retrospective and prospective research of 15 persons with a double diagnosis: body dysmorphic disorder, and delusional disorder, somatic type. It was established that these disorders starting in adolescence, occurred in persons who earlier had traits of avoidant and obsessive-compulsive personality or social phobia. In most subjects with dysmorphophobia there was comorbidity of dysthymia or major depression. An improvement in the state of these patients, most often after implementation of complex therapeutic measures: psychotherapy as well as pharmacotherapy with neuroleptic and SSRI's or clomipramine has to do with withdrawal of delusions, whereas the symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder usually last for years. In some patients delusional disorders had a tendency to reoccur or to be chronic, and lead to a considerable impairment of social functioning.
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Authors | J Rabe-Jabłońska |
Journal | Psychiatria polska
(Psychiatr Pol)
1998 Mar-Apr
Vol. 32
Issue 2
Pg. 143-53
ISSN: 0033-2674 [Print] Poland |
Vernacular Title | Wyniki długotrwałej (3-11 lat) obserwacji osób z podwójna diagnoza: dysmorfofobii i psychozy urojeniowej, typ somatyczny. |
PMID | 9640983
(Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)
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Chemical References |
- Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
- Clomipramine
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Topics |
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Clomipramine
(therapeutic use)
- Delusions
(complications, drug therapy, psychology)
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Prospective Studies
- Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
- Retrospective Studies
- Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
(therapeutic use)
- Somatoform Disorders
(complications, diagnosis, psychology)
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