Introduction The melainomany is a psychological and skin syndrome and it expresses the obsessive need of a tanned skin in complete and constant way. Purpose We have sought the psycopatogenetic factors of the syndrome and the psychological and skin ends point useful to evaluation of the psychic and skin damages. Materials and Methods 36 women and 14 men, aged 40-55 years, with habit to the constant photoexposure have been enrollede in this study. Have been appraised the psycosocial damage by Rorschach e Machover tests and by interviews psychologist-subject, skin damages by Glogau signs and by echography. Furthermore, the subjects have been submitted to a psychoterapeutic treatment. Results The tests and the interviews have underlined obsessive lines, dependence, bodily disperception, low index of reality. The Spearman correlation among clinical signs and echographic findings show tall significativity. The psychotherapy has reduced the uneasiness in 33 women and 12 men Discussion Every event that produces uneasiness process requires of rationalization that in following phases it individualizes logical justification for the lived uneasiness and for the perceived consequences. The rational psychomechanics is a new method that has identified the phase of the deviation of the thought and it has planned the corrective therapy. Conclusions The psychological tests, the interviews, the clinical signs and the echography have allowed us to appraise the psychic and skin damages, while the method of the rational psychomechanics seems to have brought a satisfactory therapeutic result.

La Melainomania: un viaggio dalla cute alla psiche in 50 soggetti

IURASSICH, Stefano
2010

Abstract

Introduction The melainomany is a psychological and skin syndrome and it expresses the obsessive need of a tanned skin in complete and constant way. Purpose We have sought the psycopatogenetic factors of the syndrome and the psychological and skin ends point useful to evaluation of the psychic and skin damages. Materials and Methods 36 women and 14 men, aged 40-55 years, with habit to the constant photoexposure have been enrollede in this study. Have been appraised the psycosocial damage by Rorschach e Machover tests and by interviews psychologist-subject, skin damages by Glogau signs and by echography. Furthermore, the subjects have been submitted to a psychoterapeutic treatment. Results The tests and the interviews have underlined obsessive lines, dependence, bodily disperception, low index of reality. The Spearman correlation among clinical signs and echographic findings show tall significativity. The psychotherapy has reduced the uneasiness in 33 women and 12 men Discussion Every event that produces uneasiness process requires of rationalization that in following phases it individualizes logical justification for the lived uneasiness and for the perceived consequences. The rational psychomechanics is a new method that has identified the phase of the deviation of the thought and it has planned the corrective therapy. Conclusions The psychological tests, the interviews, the clinical signs and the echography have allowed us to appraise the psychic and skin damages, while the method of the rational psychomechanics seems to have brought a satisfactory therapeutic result.
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