Body Image in Eating Disorders: Clinical Diagnosis and Integrative Approach to Psychological Treatment

ISBN-13: 9781032138626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 144 str.

Bernadetta Izydorczyk

Opis

Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. The phenomenon of the body image: a psychological perspective 2. Family and sociocultural predictors of body image development 3. Mental trauma and body image in eating disorders 4. Psychological characteristics of patients with eating disorders 5. Clinical diagnosis of personality structure and body image in patients with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating disorder 6. Psychotherapy of body image disorders in patients with eating disorders: an integrative approach 7. Psychodrama in psychological therapy of body image distortions  8. Summary: directions and areas of studying the diagnosis and treatment of body image distortions in eating disorders

O autorze

Bernadetta Izydorczyk is a professor at the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow.