La tricotilomanía es un trastorno psíquico primario, que ocasiona una alopecia no cicatrizal autoprovocada y se ubica en el grupo de los trastornos obsesivo-compulsivos1. A pesar de ser observada más comúnmente en niños y adolescentes, esta conducta anormal y repetida de manipular, traccionar y arrancar los pelos, normalmente del cuero cabelludo, cejas y pestañas.
Trichotillomania is a primary psychic disorder, which causes self-caused non-scarring alopecia and is located in the group of obsessive-compulsive disorders. Although most commonly observed in children and adolescents, this abnormal and repeated behavior of manipulating, pulling, and pulling hairs, usually from the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes, is common.