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Enrico Morselli
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Enrico Morselli

Italian psychiatrist
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  • body dysmorphic disorder
    / Historical developments

    …in 1891 by Italian psychiatrist Enrico Morselli. Morselli adapted the Greek word dysmorphia, meaning ā€œuglinessā€ or ā€œmisshapen,ā€ to describe the condition of persons convinced that they were unattractive in some way but who had no outward evidence of such flaws. The word comes from a myth in Herodotus’s The Histories,…

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    …in 1891 by Italian psychiatrist Enrico Morselli. Morselli adapted the Greek word dysmorphia, meaning ā€œuglinessā€ or ā€œmisshapen,ā€ to describe the condition of persons convinced that they were unattractive in some way but who had no outward evidence of such flaws. The word comes from a myth in Herodotus’s The Histories,…

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