Demographic Characteristics, Phenomenology, Comorbidity, and Family History in 200 Individuals With Body Dysmorphic Disorder

• Published in: Psychosomatics (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 317 - 325
• Main Authors: Phillips, Katharine A., Menard, William, Fay, Christina, Weisberg, Risa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC Elsevier Inc 01.07.2005; American Psychiatric Press; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Age of Onset; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Comorbidity; Delusions - diagnosis; Delusions - epidemiology; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Female; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Disorders - diagnosis; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Personality Disorders - epidemiology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Somatoform Disorders - diagnosis; Somatoform Disorders - epidemiology; Somatoform Disorders - psychology; Somatoform disorders. Psychosomatics; Human; Awareness; Clinical form; Social adjustment; Dysmorphophobia; Suicide attempt; Phenomenology; Family story; Symptomatology; Concomitant disease; Age of onset; Somatoform disorder; Mental disorder; Insight; Typology; Suicide ideation; Antecedent

The authors examined characteristics of body dysmorphic disorder in the largest sample for which a wide range of clinical features has been reported. The authors also compared psychiatrically treated and untreated subjects. Body dysmorphic disorder usually began during adolescence, involved numerous...