This landmark book is the first comprehensive edited volume on body
dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a common and severe disorder. People
with BDD are preoccupied with distressing or impairing
preoccupations with non-existent or slight defects in their
physical appearance. People with BDD think that they look ugly -
even monstrous - although they look normal to others. BDD often
derails sufferers' lives and can lead to suicide. BDD has been
described around the world since the 1800s but was virtually
unknown and unstudied until only several decades ago. Since then,
research on BDD has dramatically increased understanding of this
often-debilitating condition. Only recently, BDD was considered
untreatable, but today, most sufferers can be successfully treated.
This is the only book that provides comprehensive, in-depth,
up-to-date information on BDD's clinical features, history,
classification, epidemiology, morbidity, features in special
populations, diagnosis and assessment, etiology and
pathophysiology, treatment, and relationship to other disorders.
Numerous chapters focus on cosmetic treatment, because it is
frequently received but usually ineffective for BDD, which can lead
to legal action and even violence toward treating clinicians. The
book includes numerous clinical cases, which illustrate BDD's
clinical features, its often-profound consequences, and recommended
treatment approaches. This volume's contributors are the leading
researchers and clinicians in this rapidly expanding field. Editor
Katharine A. Phillips, head of the DSM-V committee on BDD, has done
pioneering research on many aspects of this disorder, including its
treatment. This book will be of interest to all clinicians who
provide mental health treatment and to researchers in BDD, anxiety
disorders, eating disorders, and other obsessive-compulsive and
related disorders. It will be indispensable to surgeons,
dermatologists, and other clinicians who provide cosmetic
treatment. Students and trainees with an interest in psychology and
mental health will also be interested in this book. This book fills
a major gap in the literature by providing clinicians and
researchers with cutting-edge, indispensable information on all
aspects of BDD and its treatment.
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