Psychological approach to different skin diseases: life events and tendency to complain.

Background. For nearly two decades. dermatology has associated with psychol ogy to find a better way to care for dermatology conditions, A scientific t rend called psychosomatics is creating a link between dermatology and psych ology, Objective. The purpose of this article was to examine two concepts closely linked to psychodermatology (life events and tendency to complain) and to e mphasize the difference between factors playing a role in the onset of cert ain skin diseases (psoriasis, alopecia areata, benign tumors. eczema), Results. We found that psoriasis patients have a greater tendency to compla in than people with the other disease, This point to the importance of taki ng emotions into account when studying psoriasis. We also found that life e vents play a role in the onset of psoriasis and alopecia areata. Moreover. these events were anterior by more than 12 months in alopecia patients, Conclusion. We propose exploring emotions in psoriasis patients and life ev ents over the prior year in alopecia areata patients.