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Excoriation disorder: History, Community, Culture & Applications

Excoriation disorder, more commonly known as dermatillomania, is a mental disorder on the obsessive–compulsive spectrum that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin, to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused. The exact causes of this disorder are unclear but are believed to involve a…

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Excoriation disorder topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Community, Culture and Applications as prominent areas in the source structure around Excoriation disorder.

Related topics
73
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
81
Extracted relationships
101
Concept neighborhoods
21
Bridge connections
81

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Treatment · 18 topics
Causes · 12 topics
Diagnosis · 11 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Society and culture · 8 topics
Signs and symptoms · 7 topics
Epidemiology · 6 topics
History · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Other names
Dermatillomania, skinning disorder, neurotic excoriation, acne excoriee, pathologic skin picking (PSP), compulsive skin picking (CSP), psychogenic excoriation
Specialty
Dermatology · Psychiatry

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Signs and symptoms

Causes

Diagnosis

Treatment

Epidemiology

History

Society and culture

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Excoriation disorder connects Entity context

The extracted context around Excoriation disorder shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Excoriation disorder → ACT, Among, Another, ED, For, Habit, In, Individuals, Knowledge, Obsessive Skin Pickers Anonymous, One, OSPA, Overall, PCP, Several, There, To, Treatments Another extracted example is Excoriation disorder → BDD, Classification, Diagnostic, DSM, DSM-5, Excoriation, OCD, Stein, The, There, Two. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Excoriation disorder

Top relations

has treatment · 18
Excoriation disorder → ACT, Among, Another, ED, For, Habit, In, Individuals, Knowledge, Obsessive Skin Pickers Anonymous, One, OSPA, Overall, PCP, Several, There, To, Treatments
related to Diagnosis · 11
Excoriation disorder → BDD, Classification, Diagnostic, DSM, DSM-5, Excoriation, OCD, Stein, The, There, Two
related to Neurological · 9
Excoriation disorder → BDD, Drugs, OCD, People, Studies, There, These, Those, Thus
related to history · 8
Excoriation disorder → Although, English, Erasmus Wilson, French, In, Louis-Anne-Jean Brocq, Much, The
related to Signs and symptoms · 7
Excoriation disorder → During, Episodes, In, Individuals, Most, The, When
related to Classification · 6
Excoriation disorder → DSM-5, Excoriation, ICD-10, Impulse, L98, Since
related to Epidemiology · 5
Excoriation disorder → Another, Estimates, Lastly, One, The
related to Prognosis · 5
Excoriation disorder → Excoriation, Hindered, However, Typically, When
related to Society and culture · 5
Excoriation disorder → Black Swan, Excoriation, Nina Sayers, Obsessed, OCD
related to Medication · 4
Excoriation disorder → Antipsychotic, In, SSRIs, There

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

disorder excoriation picking skin behavior may trichotillomania patients individuals ocd also found study treatment conditions one studies condition compulsive disorders

Excoriation disorder relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 101 structured relationships around Excoriation disorder. Examples in this analysis include Excoriation disorder → Other names → Dermatillomania, skinning disorder, neurotic excoriation, acne excoriee, pathologic skin picking (PSP), compulsive skin picking (CSP), psychogenic excoriation and Excoriation disorder → Specialty → Dermatology. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Excoriation disorderOther namesDermatillomania, skinning disorder, neurotic excoriation, acne excoriee, pathologic skin picking (PSP), compulsive skin picking (CSP), psychogenic excoriation1.00infobox
Excoriation disorderSpecialtyDermatology1.00infobox
Excoriation disorderSpecialtyPsychiatry1.00infobox
anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorderinstance ofincluding stress and underlying mental health conditions0.80text
the fingernailsinstance ofand extremities0.80text
knucklesinstance ofand extremities0.80text
cuticlesinstance ofand extremities0.80text
toenailsinstance ofand extremities0.80text
etcinstance ofand extremities0.80text
tweezers or needles.Skin picking often occurs as a result of some other triggering causeinstance ofThe most common way to pick is to use the fingers although a significant minority of people use tools0.80text
cocaineinstance ofDrugs0.80text
methamphetamineinstance ofDrugs0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Excoriation disorder bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Excoriation, Picking and Found. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Excoriation disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Individuals
    • Also
    • May
    • Patients
    • Compulsive
    • Disorders
    • Trichotillomania
    • Treatment
  • excoriation disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Individuals
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Patients
    • Treatment
    • Also
    • May
    • Compulsive
    • Conditions
    • Disorders
  • mental disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Individuals
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Patients
    • Treatment
    • Also
    • May
    • Compulsive
    • Conditions
    • Separate
  • obsessive–compulsive spectrum
    • Obsessive
    • Pick
    • Trichotillomania
    • Disorders
    • Skin-picking
    • Anxiety
    • Dsm-5
    • Conditions
    • Psychological
    • Separate
    • Dermatillomania
    • Damage
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Individuals
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Patients
    • Treatment
    • Also
    • May
    • Compulsive
    • Conditions
    • Separate
  • body dysmorphic disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Trichotillomania
    • Patients
    • Conditions
    • Pick
    • Individuals
    • Often
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Treatment
    • Also
  • substance use disorder
    • Excoriation
    • Individuals
    • Picking
    • Found
    • Ocd
    • Patients
    • Treatment
    • Also
    • May
    • Conditions
    • Disorders
    • Compulsive
  • yale–brown obsessive compulsive scale
    • Obsessive
    • Pick
    • Trichotillomania
    • Disorders
    • Skin-picking
    • Anxiety
    • Dsm-5
    • Conditions
    • Psychological
    • Separate
    • Dermatillomania
    • Damage

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Excoriation disorder, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Excoriation disorder with Treatment. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Excoriation disorderTreatment · splits 63 ⟂ 19
Excoriation disorderCauses · splits 69 ⟂ 13
Excoriation disorderDiagnosis · splits 70 ⟂ 12
Excoriation disorderOverview · splits 72 ⟂ 10
Excoriation disorderSociety and culture · splits 73 ⟂ 9
Excoriation disorderSigns and symptoms · splits 74 ⟂ 8
Excoriation disorderEpidemiology · splits 75 ⟂ 7
Excoriation disorderHistory · splits 79 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Excoriation disorder

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples101
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Excoriation disorder to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Community, Culture & Applications, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Excoriation disorder · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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