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| Title: | Body Image
: New Research |
| Author: | Marlene V Kindes (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1600210597 : 9781600210594 |
| Illustrations: | tables & charts |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 326 |
| Weight: | .892 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - November 2006 |
| List Price: | 73.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | PSYCHOLOGY |
Western culture has increasingly valued physical appearance and in particular slenderness in the last 20 years. Unrealistic targets of thinness and excessive weight loss have led to eating disorders, the idea of obligatory exercise and other mental health problems. The concept of dissatisfaction with one's body image is driven home by images of ultra-thin models appearing in newspapers, magazines and television. This book brings together leading international research in this alarming and growing field.
Preface; Striving for Bodily Perfection? An Overview of the Drive for Muscularity; The Influence of Body Weight and Shape in Determining Female and Male Physical Attractiveness; Sports Advertising and Body Image; Body Image and Self-concept in Bulimia: Information Processing to Salient Facets of the Self; Eating Disorders and Adolescent Girls: Implications from a Developmental Perspective; Borderline Personality Disorder and Body Image; Body Image Deviation in Chronic Schizophrenia: A New Research; The Sociodempographic and Phenomenological Features of Brazilian Patients with Body Dysmorphic Disorder; Body Image in Morbid Obesity; The Association between Actual Fatness, Body Ratings and Appearance Perception in Children; Body Image in Children and Motor Ability: The Relationship between Human Figure Drawings and Motor Ability; Clinical Treatment for Body Image Disturbances: Variations on a Theme -- Interactive Guided Imagery, Empty Chair Work and Therapeutic Letter-Writing; Impact of Vitiligo on Body Image: An Overview; Index.
