DELUSIONAL DISORDER, SOMATIC SUBTYPE, TREATED WITH FLUVOXAMINE

Dysmorphophobia, a brief and exaggerated concern with an imagined or n egligible defect in physical appearance. has been divided by DSM-IV in to two separate disorders. When the disturbance attains delusional int ensity, the proper diagnosis is delusional disorder of the somatic sub type. For the non-delusional cases, DSM-IV created the category of Bod yDysmorphic Disorder (BDD). Two cases of delusional disorder, somatic subtype, are described which were successfully treated with fluvoxamin e. The validity of this DSM-IV diagnostic entity is thus questioned.