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Informationen zum Autor Katharine A. Phillips is RI Director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Body Image Program at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine. Klappentext Dr. Phillips draws on years of clinical practice, scientific research, and professional evaluations of over 700 patients to bring readers her expertise and experience with body dysmorphic disorder, or BDD. Zusammenfassung Provides information on body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a relatively common and sometimes debilitating disorder in which sufferers are obsessed with perceived appearance flaws. This book describes BDD and includes a quick self-assessment questionnaire. It also provides information and recommendations on how to effectively treat BDD. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Why I'm Updating This Book 1: Why BDD Matters 2: Patients Speak 3: What Is Body Dysmorphic Disorder? 4: How Do I Know If I Have BDD? 5: BDD Comes in Many Forms 6: Painful Obsessions 7: Mirror Checking, Grooming, Camouflaging, Dieting and Other BDD Behaviours 8: How BDD Affects Lives: Social Avoidance, Problems at Work and Suicide 9: Gender and BDD Across the Life Span 10: What Causes BDD? Clues to an Unsolved Puzzle 11: Aren't We All Concerned with How We Look? Body Image, BDD and Normal Appearance Concerns 12: Getting Better: A Treatment Guide 13: How to Successfully Treat BDD with Medication 14: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy 15: Treatments That Don't Work 16: Anorexia Nervosa, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Koro and Other Disorders - Are They Relatives of BDD? 17: For Family Members and Friends 18: Getting Help for BDD Appendixes A: Demographic Characterstics of People with BDD B: Brief Description of Selected Psychiatric Disorders C: Instruments (Scales) for Assessing BDD D: Co-occurrence of BDD and Other Disorders ...
