Medical

Clinical Psychodermatology A Casebook

Editorial: American Psychiatric Assoc Publishing Inc.

ISBN: 9781615375400

Pub: 2024-12-12

Psychodermatology includes the study of psychocutaneous conditions and the psychosocial implications of skin disease. Although the field is relatively new, its basic principles date back thousands of years; Hippocrates himself, in the fifth century BCE, acknowledged the effect of stress on his skin on several occasions.