The impact of skin diseases on patients: comparing dermatologists' opinions with research data collected on their patients

Abstract

The belief that psychiatric morbidity is rare in patients with certain skin conditions might hamper, at least in part, the recognition of psychiatric disorders in these patients. Dermatologists probably should be more alert to the question of psychiatric morbidity in their patients. Allocating more space to this issue in training programmes for dermatologists might favour a shift in their conceptual models of skin disease.