The<unk>  arises from the concurring and overlapping clinical concepts of the narcissistic personality, dysmorphophobia, and paraphilia. Psychodynamically, the man afflicted with DGS presents an interplay among his narcissistic tendencies ("timeless beauty"), his arrested development (inability to psychologically mature), and his use of "medical lifestyle" products and services — hair restoration, drugs (for impotence, weight-loss, and mood modification), laser dermatology, and plastic surgery — in order to remain young. Although the DGS patient displays diagnostic features of said mental disorders, the syndrome describes a common, underlying psychodynamics of mental illness, which is characterized by narcissistic defences against time-dependent maturation, expressed by actively seeking the timeless beauty of youth. The article Das<unk> (2005) reported that approximately 3.0 per cent of the population of Germany present features of the<unk> .
Dorian Gray syndrome
Seaver Cassidy syndrome
Skoptic syndrome
Shapiro syndrome
Robinow syndrome
Nance–Horan syndrome
Nicolau–Balus syndrome
Cantú syndrome