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GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY IN ADULT ATOPIC ECZEMA
WILLIAM B. GUY, M.D.;
ROBERT J. SHOEMAKER, M.D.;
JAMES T. McLAUGHLIN, M.D.
AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1954;70(6):767-781.
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THIS STUDY grew out of a psychiatric appraisal of a group of 30 adult atopic eczema patients previously reported.1 That project has been extended to include over 50 subjects and is still in progress. It was understood from the beginning that this is no novel approach to the problem. Numerous dermatologists, psychiatrists, and allergists* have asked and attempted to answer questions about the psychological aspects of this disease, and psychotherapy has been previously used in its management.
The dermatologist in this study has been singularly impressed by the similarity in behavior and demeanor of the atopic eczema patients encountered in private and clinic practice. The psychiatrists, too, after studying a fair number of them were struck by the fact that they had personality and character traits in common to a point that was significant—considering that they were selected only on the basis of having the same cutaneous disorder. It
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Author Affiliations
PITTSBURGH
From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology (Dr. Guy), and from the Department of Psychiatry, Instructor of Psychiatry (Dr. Shoemaker), and Staunton Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Dr. McLaughlin), School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh.
Footnotes
Read before the Seventy-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Dermatological Association, Inc., White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., April 15, 1954.
Social Studies in this series were done by Mary Mally, M.S.S., and psychological testing was under the supervision of Anne M. Ritter, Ph.D., both of the Staunton Clinic and University of Pittsburgh.
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