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"Dysmorphophobia"
- Enrico Morselli (physician, psychiatrist and anthropologist).
- Article: ‘Sulla Dismorfofobia e sulla Tafefobia due forme non per anco descritte di Pazzia con idee fisse’.
- Neologism: "Dismorfofobia" (dysmorphophobia).
- Introduced as a disorder related to fixed ideas underlined by phobia, which fear is caused by a preocupation of imagined abnormal physical qualities.
- Condition that came from the unconscious.
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Physic Symptom of Neurasthenia
- Eugenio Tanzi (psychiatrist).
- Acquired and transitory manifestation of neurasthenia: Disorder based on which people is constantly worried about their physical health and appearance, while there is no observational evidence of a body alteration.
- His book led to the appearance of the word "dysmorphophobia" in the English language (1909).
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The "Wolf Man"
- Sigmund Freud.
- Sergie Pankejeff: Fear of wolves.
- Recurrent dream about white wolves staring at him.
- Irrational and persistant thought of his nose being deformed.
- Constant preocupation about the appearance of his nose, so he was frequently checking his reflection with detailed examination of his nose.
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DSM III
- American Psychiatric Association.
- 'Dysmorphophobia' is presented as an atypical somatoform disorder.
- 1987: DSM-III-R: 'Body Dysmorphic Disorder'.
- That classification changed in the DSM-V (2013): Now part of the Obsessive-Compulsive and related Disorders spectrum.