A case report of successful treatment of dysmorphophobia with tranylcypromine
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 141 (11) , 1463-1464
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.141.11.1463
Abstract
The author describes a 21-year-old woman with persistent disabling dysmorphophobia (atypical somatoform disorder) that failed to respond to neuroleptics and heterocyclic antidepressants but resolved completely with the monamine oxidase inhibitor tranylcypromine.Keywords
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