[The psychic skin: principles and prospectives of intervention in psychodermatology]

The skin represents the best metaphor of functioning mind taken from the physical or material reality to consider the psychic reality and as result of a metaphoric action retaining and bearing the signs of a deep level of "feeling" where the first psychic organizations are structured or "emerge" from the early sensorial experiences, initially diffused, aspecific and transmodal. In this paper we present a clinical and research experience in psychodermatology beginning from the study of the anxiety and depression levels, the history of the psychoaffective development and the role of traumatic events or loss experiences. We also explore the importance of the patient attachment system, and the implications all these factors have in the psychopatology and treatment of dermopatic patients.