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KMID : 0371619980140010111
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Journal of Wonkwang Medical Science
1998 Volume.14 No. 1 p.111 ~ p.116
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A Case of Schizophrenia with Trichotillomania on the Total Scalp
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Ko Jung-In
Sheen Sung-Hun
Lee Sang-Yeol
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Abstract
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Trichotillomania is characterized by recurrent pulling of one’s hair, resulting in significant hair loss and involves many hours each day of pulling hair or thinking about pulling hair. Patients pulled hair from a variety of sites, including scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows, pubic region, face, and body, but the highest incidence and severity involved scalp hair. This symptom arises as a part of symptom complexes in a variety of psychiatric disorders such as obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, mental retardation, eating disorder and schizophrenic disorder.
The authors experienced a case of trichotillomania in a 42 year old schizophrenic patient whose total hair in scalp was pull out. Several literatures were reviewed and psychiatric aspect of trichotillomania were discussed. For the treatment of this patient, haloperidol and supportive psychotherapy had been tried and been proven effective.
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KEYWORD
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Schizpphrenia, Trichotillomania
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