Am J Psychiatry 1989; 146:768-770
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Treatment of body-dysmorphic disorder with serotonin reuptake blockers

E Hollander, MR Liebowitz, R Winchel, A Klumker and DF Klein
Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY.

The authors describe five patients with body-dysmorphic disorder who responded preferentially to serotonin reuptake blockers. They review the literature, describe how patients with excessive concern about body abnormalities lie along a spectrum of doubt and certainty, and discuss similarities and differences between this disorder and obsessive- compulsive disorder.

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