A Case of Skin Picking Disorder of a Patient with a History of Childhood Abuse

作者：Okan Ibiloglu Aslihan; Atli Abdullah; Kaya Mehmet Cemal; Demir Suleyman; Bulut Mahmut; Sir Aytekin

来源：Noropsikiyatri Arsivi, 2016, 53(2): 181-183.

DOI：10.5152/npa.2015.10110

• Self-injurious behavior
• psychogenic skin excoriation
• skin picking disorder
• borderline personality disorder
• childhood abuse

Skin picking (excoriation) disorder is the recurrent excoriation of one's own skin, resulting in noticeable skin damage. People pick their skin for different reasons. For the majority of patients, first skin picking is associated with a history of childhood abuse and personal problems. Subjects who moderately to severely cause injurious self-harm are more likely to have a history of exposure to domestic violence and childhood abuse than those who do not self-harm. At the same time, these conditions could be related to the etiology for majority of other psychiatric disorders. We report herein, a case of a patient with skin picking disorder who had a history of childhood physical and emotional abuse with borderline personality disorder.

• 出版日期2016-6