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Chapter 9 - Body Image

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2020

Jane Morris  and
Caz Nahman
Jane Morris
Affiliation:
Royal Cornhill Hospital
Caz Nahman
Affiliation:
Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Summary

The reader is introduced to the contentious concept of severe and enduring eating disorders which may not have responded to traditional treatments. It suggests a potential staging model and encourages the reader to make links with patients they might be seeing in order to understand this further.

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body imagemaintaining factorsbody dysmorphic disordershape and weight concerns
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New to Eating Disorders , pp. 62 - 68
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Fairburn, C. (2008) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Eating Disorders. New York: Guilford Press, chap. 8.Google Scholar
Fairburn, C. G., Cooper, Z., & Shafran, R. (2003) Cognitive behaviour therapy for eating disorders: A transdiagnostic theory and treatment. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 41(5): 509–528.Google Scholar
Grant, J., Kim, S. W., & Eckert, E. (2002) Body dysmorphic disorder in patients with anorexia nervosa: Prevalence, clinical features, and delusionality of body image. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 32(3): 291–300.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Grant, K. J., & Philips, K. A. (2004) Is anorexia nervosa a sub-type of body dysmorphic disorder. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 12(2): 123–126.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grogan, S. (2008) Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Lavender, J. M., Brown, T. A., & Murray, S. B. (2017) Men, muscles and eating disorders: An overview of traditional and muscularity orientated disordered eating. Current Psychiatric Reports, 19(6): 32–43.Google Scholar
Murray, S. B., Griffiths, S., & Mond, J. M. (2016) Evolving eating disorder psychopathology: Conceptualizing muscularity-orientated disordered eating. British Journal of Psychiatry, 208(5): 414–15.Google Scholar
Read, G., & Morris, J. (2008) Body image disturbance in eating disorders. In Morris, J. (Ed.), ABC of Eating Disorders (pp. 9–15). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar
Schilder, P. (1950) The Image and Appearance of the Human Body. New York: International Universities PressGoogle Scholar
Strother, E., Lemberg, R., & Standford, S. C. (2012) Eating disorders in men: Underdiagnosed, undertreated and misunderstood. Eating Disorders, 20(5): 346–55.Google Scholar
Thompson, J. K., & Stice, E. (2001) Thin-ideal internalisation: Mounting evidence for a new risk factor for body-image disturbance and eating pathology. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10(5): 181–8.Google Scholar

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