In Popular Culture
The film Hellraiser II has a scene with a mental patient with this condition, who is given a straight razor to "remedy" his condition.
In season 3 episode 12 of the television show The X-Files Scully mention this condition in conversation with Mulder.
In season 5 episode 7 of the television show House Dr. Wilson diagnoses Dr. House as having delusional parasitosis.
The animated series The Simpsons makes reference to delusional parasitosis in the motto of the Springfield Psychiatric Center: "Because There May Not Be Bugs On You".
The Philip K. Dick novel A Scanner Darkly contains a character named Jerry Fabin who suffers from intense delusional parasitosis. This detail forms the partly humourous plot of the opening segment of the film adaptation of the story - see A Scanner Darkly (film).
The play Bug (play) and subsequent movie Bug (2006 film) are about a couple who experience delusional parasitosis together.
In Scott Sigler's novels Infected and Contagious, skin infestations by alien parasites are discounted as delusional parasitosis, specifically Morgellons.
In the first issue of the comic book Hellblazer, John Constantine's friend believes he is experiencing delusion parasitosis as a result of being a junkie. (As it turns out, he really is covered in insects.)
Read more about this topic: Delusional Parasitosis
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