Psychocutaneous medicine: recalcitrant dermatoses seen as a transition object through the psychiatric periscope

Recalcitrant dermatoses may be a manifestation of a symbolic transition object. Psychologically, the patient uses his skin eruption to assure himself that he is a separate person with his own boundaries. A method is presented which describes a way in which to control recalcitrant dermatoses without using potentially dangerous drugs.