TY  - JOUR
T1  - BRomidrosiphobia
AU  - SUTTON RL
Y1  - 1919/05/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610180005003
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1267
EP  - 1268
VL  - 72
IS  - 18
N2  - There exist a few small groups of nervous and mental disorders which involve the skin only secondarily, and which cannot logically be classified with the true neurodermatoses. Despite this fact, it is on the dermatologist that the responsibility of their clinical recognition largely rests. The more common of these affections, such as trichotillomania1 and trichokryptomania belong in the category of "tics," or habit spasms. Next in frequency of occurrence are some of the various fear psychoses, which are characterized by a morbid dread of parasitic contamination, and of which acarophobia2 and syphilophobia are typical examples. By patient and careful questioning, one can occasionally uncover the basis on which a fear of this kind rests, and, if the patient is sufficiently intelligent, the possibility of infection ever having taken place can be explained away. I once encountered such an instance in the case of a young woman who for
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610180005003
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610180005003
ER  -