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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder Paperback - 1998

by Katharine A. Phillips

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  • Title The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford ; New York
  • Date June 25, 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # P-02-4567
  • ISBN 9780195121261 / 0195121260
  • Weight 1.01 lbs (0.46 kg)
  • Dimensions 6 x 9 x 1.1 in (15.24 x 22.86 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Body dysmorphic disorder
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004049249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 616.852

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From the publisher

CONTENTS: Why BDD matters -- Patients speak -- What is body dysmorphic disorder? -- How do I know if I have BDD? -- BDD comes in many forms -- Painful obsessions -- Mirror checking, grooming, camouflaging, dieting and other BDD behaviors -- How BDD affects lives : social avoidance, problems at work and suicide -- Gender and BDD across the life span -- What causes BDD? Clues to an unsolved puzzle -- Aren’t we all concerned with how we look? BDD and normal appearance concerns -- Anorexia nervosa, obsessive compulsive disorder, koro and other disorders – are they relatives of BDD? -- Help for BDD sufferers : overview and medications -- Cognitive-behavioral therapy and other treatments -- BDD and the family -- Appendix A : brief description of selected psychiatric disorders -- Appendix B : instruments for assessing BDD -- Appendix C : co-occurrence of BDD and other disorders -- Glossary.

First line

Millions of Americans have a secret obsession.

About the author

Katharine A. Phillips, M.D., is Chief of Outpatient Services and Director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder and Body Image Program at Butler Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University School of Medicine. She is internationally known for her pioneering work on BDD.