Pickers, Pluckers and Impostors

1 December 1965

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Postgraduate Medicine

Vol. 38 (6) , 620-630
https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.1965.11696846

Abstract

Self-induced mutilation of the skin and its appendages varies from behavioral habits, such as nail biting, to serious factitial injury. Excoriators may be psychologically grouped, and the character of the injury determined by the patient's personality structure. Generally, the self-inflicted injury represents self-punishment and relieves a tension produced by hate, fear or guilt. Differential diagnosis of self-mutilation of the skin and dermatoses is most important.

Keywords

This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:

Man against himself.
Published by American Psychological Association (APA) ,2004
Behavior Disorders of Interest to Dermatologists
Archives of Dermatology, 1963
Psychiatric and Entomological Aspects of Delusory Parasitosis
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1963
Four Cases of Autocastration
Archives of General Psychiatry, 1963
The Munchausen syndrome or the problem of hospital hoboes
The American Journal of Medicine, 1958
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda Simulating Dermatitis Factitia
A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology, 1956
THE CONCEPT AND CLINICAL ASPECTS OF FACTITIAL DERMATITIS*
Southern Medical Journal, 1953
DERMATOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS IN PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
JAMA, 1948
PSYCHOSOMATIC STUDIES IN DERMATOLOGY
Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, 1945
SODIUM AMYTAL AS AN AID TO PSYCHOTHERAPY IN A CASE OF DERMATITIS FACTITIA
Archives of Dermatology, 1937