Tag: Body

Optimizing Evidence-Based Treatment for Body Dysmorphic Disorder


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031653386 | 239 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 8 MB
This book provides an understanding of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a psychiatric classification that is characterized by a preoccupation with a perceived or slight imperfection in physical appearance. This disorder lowers quality of life due to time-consuming compulsions intended to hide, fix, or check appearance concerns. Although relatively common, BDD is often not treated appropriately. When untreated, BDD is chronic, severe, and associated with substantial psychosocial impairment and morbidity, including unemployment rates of roughly 40-50%, suicide attempts in 22-28%, and lifetime housebound rates of roughly 30%.This book provides an overview of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a psychiatric classification that is characterized by excessively impaired perception of physical attributes that can lead to acute disruption of life activities. BDD is a common disorder, but few clinicians are trained in its assessment and treatment.

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My Mind Body Connection Grew When I Least Expected It


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English | July 21, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0D9WT7L1P | EPUB | 0.45 Mb
Imagine being me: a successful startup lawyer with no time for nonsense trends or buzzwords. An intelligent and extremely skeptical person who believes in absolute logic, which he uses to navigate each client’s needs.

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Few-Body Problems in Physics ’95 In memoriam Professor Paul Urban


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1996 | 540 Pages | ISBN: 3709194296 | PDF | 9 MB
This book collects invited papers and contributions to the panel sessions, presented at the 15th European Conference on Few-Body Physics held in Peniscola, Spain, June 5-9, 1995. The main topics treated are the theoretical methodology, the experimental measurements and future plans, the exotic atomic systems, the subnuclear degrees of freedom and the role of relativistic effects in few-body systems.

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Body Image Social Influences, Ethnic Differences and Impact on Self-esteem


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English | ISBN: 163483870X | 2015 | 146 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The relationship between self-esteem and body image has been well-established such that low levels of self-esteem have been found to be associated with body image concerns. The authors review previous research on the link between low self-esteem and body image concerns and then discuss more recent research concerning the importance of contingent self-esteem in this connection. The next chapter provides a discussion on the commonness of body dissatisfaction among contemporary Western young women and suggests re-embodiment as a means of transforming this experience. Chapter 3 explores the relationship between appearance satisfaction emotional overeating, experiences of racism and BMI among Black and African American women. Ethnic identity plays an important role in the self-concept related to feelings and attitudes. Chapter 4 explores the ethnic differences in self-esteem and body image among adolescents, as well as the need to address ethnicity in prevention programs. The remaining chapters of the book focus on body image in adolescent pregnancy; magazine image influence, extraversion and body image in college males; sociocultural factors, body image factors and self-esteem on school-age males and females, the perception of self-image in older people and how it changes throughout life; an examination of how the way woman perceive themselves influences the psychosexual impact on quality of life; and finally, how people can improve or develop a healthier investment in appearance.

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Affective Spaces Architecture and the Living Body


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English | November 23, 2020 | ISBN: 0367541106, 0367541114 | True EPUB | 142 pages | 8.7 MB
This book explores the notion of affective space in relation to architecture. It helps to clarify the first-person, direct experience of the environment and how it impacts a person’s emotional states, influencing their perception of the world around them.

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