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Intensive out-patient and residential tratment for bulimia
Marjorie Thompson, J. Gray (1995)
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Figure 1a/b. Both depictions are in the same zone where the subject becomes acquainted with the appropriate control device, the HMD, and the recognition of collisions. To move to the next zone, subjects must weigh themselves with a virtual scale. Giuseppe Riva, Luca Melis, and Mirco Bolzoni ody image has a long and well-known association with eating and weightrelated problems. One index of the importance of body-image disturbance involves its relevance to agreed-on clinical disorders. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV contains a body-image criterion that is required for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. It has also been suggested that, when there is psychological comorbidity with obesity, it may be due to problematic body experience issues. In contrast to the great number of publications on body image, only a few articles focus on the treatment of a disturbed body image in eating disorders. In general, two direct and specific approaches can be distinguished: a cognitive/behavioral approach aimed at influencing patients feelings of dissatisfaction with different parts of their bodies by means of individual interviews, relaxation, and imaginal techniques [1], and a visual/motorial approach that makes use of video recordings of particular
Communications of the ACM – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Aug 1, 1997
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