Exacting beauty

J. Kevin Thompson Leslie J. Heinberg Madeline Altabe Stacey Tantleff-Dunn

About this book

Body image is a powerful factor in how people feel about themselves. If one suffers from body image disturbance, it often leads to a host of difficulties, ranging from low self-esteem to bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and body dysmorphic disorders.

Successfully integrating explanations from social, interpersonal, feminist, and behavioral-cognitive psychology, Exacting Beauty is packed with invaluable research, case histories and descriptions, and treatment guidance. Clinicians, practitioners, and researchers will value this book for its rich, up-to-date coverage of how psychology grapples with the troubling relationship between psychological health and body image.

Subjects

behavioural theory (behaviourism)
body image
body image disturbance
cognition & cognitive psychology
cognitive psychology
eating disorders
feeding and eating disorders
image du corps, troubles de l'
lichaamsbewustheid
mental health
personality disorders
psychology
psychopathology - eating disorders
psychopathology - general
psychotherapy
psychotherapy - general
self concept
self-perception
social, group or collective psychology
somatoform disorders
stoornissen
the self, ego, identity, personality
zelfbeeld