Poster 13

[P-13-05] Body Dysmorphic Cases in Russia

*Dmitry Romanov^1,2, Evgeniya Voronova^2,1, Anastasia Tveritina² (1.Mental Health Research Center(Russia), 2.Sechenov University(Russia))

Keywords:

Body Dysmorphic Disorder,Clinical Subtypes,Body Dysmorphic Spectrum,BDD Delusional Subtype,Dorian Grey Syndrome

In dermatology and cosmetology, dysmorphic ideas are common but not uniform and show great phenomenological heterogeneity.Objective is to provide knowledge about phenomenological heterogeneity of dysmorphia in dermato-cosmetology in Russia. The concept of body dysmorphic spectrum is going to be presented. The importance of distinguishing between dysmorphic concerns, obsessions, over-valued ideas, and delusions will be highlighted. The distinguishing of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) subtypes, i.e. delusional subtype, muscle subtype, skin picking or hair pulling subtype, and agism subtype (Dorian Grey Syndrome) will be discussed. The need to access the correlation of patients’ dysmorphic ideas with objective results of a cosmetological examination is going to be emphasized. Several illustrative clinical cases will be presented.