Edited by Dan J. Stein, Gary A. Christenson, and Eric Hollander. 344 pp. Washington, D.C., American Psychiatric Press, 1999. $45. ISBN 0-88048-759-3.
We've all heard that you can't judge a book by its cover, andthat is certainly true of Trichotillomania. The Medusa-likefigure on the jacket suggests that patients with trichotillomaniaare evil, mythical creatures, rather than real people with atroublesome disorder. Fortunately, the authors are well awareof the difficulties faced by these patients; they do a superbjob of characterizing the clinical aspects of the disorder andproviding a careful review of its pathophysiologic featuresand treatment. François Hallopeau, a French dermatologist,coined the term trichotillomania by combining the Greek wordstrichos (meaning hair), tillein (meaning to pull), . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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