Clinical Cases in Psychocutaneous Disease

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Psychologically Challenging Patient Encounters in Dermatology

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The “Long List” Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 3-6

   3. The “Will You Be My PCP?” Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 7-9

   4. The Patient with Unusual Demands

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 11-13

   5. The Fearful Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 15-18

   6. The Patient with a Chronic Disease

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 19-23

   7. The Angry Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 25-28

   8. The Distrustful and Poorly Compliant Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 29-32

3. Psychocutaneous Disease in Geriatric Patients

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-34

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   2. Delusions of Parasitosis in Geriatric Patients

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 35-38

   3. Neurotic Excoriations and the Elderly

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 39-40

   4. The Geriatric Patient with Neurodermatitis

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 41-47

4. Cases of Psychocutaneous Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-51

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   2. Formication Without Delusions

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 53-54

   3. The Slightly Delusional Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 55-56

   4. The Delusional but Hopeful Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 57-58

   5. The Hopelessly Delusional Patient

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 59-61

   6. Drug-Induced Formication and Delusions of Parasitosis

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 63-65

   7. Other Delusionoid Beliefs

      • Tien V. Nguyen, Jillian W. Wong, John Koo

      Pages 67-69

Clinical cases are a key component in modern medical education, assisting the trainee or recertifying clinician to work through unusual cases using best practice techniques. Dermatology is an important discipline in this regard since it is a highly visual subject requiring the reader to describe often very subtle differences in the presentation of patients and define accurately the diagnostic and management criteria to base their clinical decision-making on. This is particularly the case in the field of psychocutaneous disease where scientific advances are shedding new light on the understanding and treatment of long-recognized conditions located at the interface of dermatology and psychiatry. Psychodermatology covers all aspects of how the mind and body interact in relation to the onset and progression of various skin disorders.

• Psychodermatology
• Psychosomatic medicine

• Department of Dermatology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

  Tien V. Nguyen

• Department of Dermatology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, USA

  Jillian W. Wong

• Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

  John Koo

Tien V. Nguyen, M.D., Department of Dermatology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Jillian W. Wong, M.D., Department of Dermatology, University of California in Davis, Sacramento, CA, John Koo, M.D., Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

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