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[Psychological approach to different skin diseases: life events and tendency to complain]
1Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique.
Background:
For nearly two decades, dermatology has associated with psychology to find a better way to care for dermatology conditions. A scientific trend called psychosomatics is creating a link between dermatology and psychology.
Objective:
The purpose of this article was to examine two concepts closely linked to psychodermatology (life events and tendency to complain) and to emphasize the difference between factors playing a role in the onset of certain skin diseases (psoriasis, alopecia areata, benign tumors, eczema).
Results:
We found that psoriasis patients have a greater tendency to complain than people with the other disease. This point to the importance of taking emotions into account when studying psoriasis. We also found that life events play a role in the onset of psoriasis and alopecia areata. Moreover, these events were anterior by more than 12 months in alopecia patients.
Conclusion:
We propose exploring emotions in psoriasis patients and life events over the prior year in alopecia areata patients.