Dorian-Gray Syndrome

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Some researchers understand the Dorian-Gray syndrome to be a mental disorder or a clinical syndrome that manifests itself in the mental inability to age and mature and in a lack of acceptance of one's own appearance. Some authors see this as a social phenomenon, as a manifestation of the current zeitgeist behavior. The term is sometimes used or spread outside the medical-psychiatric field.

Origin of the term

The term was coined by the Giessen psychologist Burkhard Brosig in the context of a conference on lifestyle medicine in 2000 . It is based on the novel The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde , whose key figure is Dorian Gray, and takes up a motif of the work: the inability to age and thus also to mature spiritually.

Concept by Burkhard Brosig

Brosig assumes a psychodynamic interaction between narcissistic tendencies (keyword: ageless beauty), problems of psychosexual progression (keyword: avoidance of development and maturity) and finally, in the sense of a defense , the use of lifestyle offers in medicine. This serves as a means to achieve external perfection without internal psychological processing and to hold onto eternal youth.

The following criteria must be met for diagnosis:

• Signs of dysmorphophobia (impaired perception of one's own body )
• Inability to reach psychological maturity and to take appropriate developmental steps
• Clearly excessive use of at least two of these lifestyle medicine offers: hair restorer / hair surgery, anti-obesity drugs , impotence drugs , antidepressants for mood manipulation, use of the offers of cosmetic dermatology , use of the offers of the plastic surgery .

Clinically, there is latent depression with the risk of suicidal crises, whereby the measures of lifestyle medicine are to be understood as a psychological defense against breaking through depressive states. Insufficient consideration of the psychological dynamics leads to a pathologically narcissistic attitude and sometimes self-damaging behavior.

Brosig estimates that 2 to 3% of the population have Dorian-Gray syndrome.

See also

• Anti aging
• Peter Pan Syndrome

literature

• B. Brosig: The Dorian Gray Syndrome. Hair restorer and other fountains of youth. Hessisches Ärzteblatt, 11/2000, pp. 470-472; on-line
• B. Brosig, S. Euler, E. Brähler, U. Gieler: The Dorian Gray Syndrome. In: RA Trüeb (Ed.): Anti-Aging, from antiquity to modernity. Steinkopff, Darmstadt 2006, ISBN 3-7985-1636-7 , p. 113ff.
• S. Euler, E. Brähler, B. Brosig: The Dorian-Gray syndrome as an "ethnic disorder" of late modernity. In: Psychosocial . (2003); 26, pp. 73-89, Gießen, Psychosozial-Verlag .
• Angelika Reese: Forever young! Dorian Gray Syndrome as a Challenge for School . Dissertation . Schulz-Kirchner, Idstein 2008, ISBN 978-3-8248-0287-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} B. Brosig: The Dorian Gray Syndrome. Hair restorer and other fountains of youth. Hessisches Ärzteblatt, 11/2000, pp. 470-472; online ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ B. Brosig: The Dorian Gray Syndrome. Hair restorer and other fountains of youth. Lecture at the advanced training academy of the State Medical Association of Hesse, section clinical pharmacology, on April 29, 2000
3. ↑ cf. Brosig et al. 2005

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