Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders

Dan J Stein; Joseph P Garner; Nancy J Keuthen; Martin E Franklin; John T Walkup; Douglas W Woods

doi:10.1007/s11920-007-0036-4

Trichotillomania, stereotypic movement disorder, and related disorders

Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2007 Aug;9(4):301-2. doi: 10.1007/s11920-007-0036-4.

Authors

Dan J Stein¹, Joseph P Garner, Nancy J Keuthen, Martin E Franklin, John T Walkup, Douglas W Woods

Affiliation

¹ UCT Department of Psychiatry, Groote Schuur Hospital J-2, Observatory 7925, Cape Town, South Africa. dan.stein@uct.ac.za

PMID: 17880861
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-007-0036-4

Abstract

Trichotillomania is currently classified as an impulse control disorder not otherwise classified, whereas body-focused behaviors other than hair-pulling may be diagnosed as stereotypic movement disorder. A number of disorders characterized by repetitive, body-focused behaviors (eg, skin-picking) are prevalent and disabling and may have phenomenological and psychobiological overlap. Such disorders deserve greater recognition in the official nosology, and there would seem to be clinical utility in classifying them in the same diagnostic category.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / classification
Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders / diagnosis*
Humans
Self-Injurious Behavior / classification
Self-Injurious Behavior / diagnosis*
Statistics as Topic
Stereotypic Movement Disorder / classification
Stereotypic Movement Disorder / diagnosis*
Trichotillomania / classification
Trichotillomania / diagnosis*