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Psychocutaneous Disorders

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This chapter focuses on description of psychocutaneous disorders. Increased understanding of clinical and biopsychosocial approaches among primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and dermatologists could be very useful and highly beneficial.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

    Marcello Menta S. Nico

  2. Department of Dermatology, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia, Brazil

    Juliana Dumet Fernandes

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  1. Marcello Menta S. Nico
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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

    Bruce Smoller

  2. Taha Physicians’ Building, Dr. Nooshin Bagerhani’s Office, Khoramshahr, Khuzestan Province, Iran

    Nooshin Bagherani

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Nico, M.M.S., Fernandes, J.D. (2022). Psychocutaneous Disorders. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53808-2_51

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