How certainty appraisal might improve both body dissatisfaction and body overestimation in anorexia nervosa: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with anorexia nervosa often report a conscious alteration of body image representation, with both body overestimation and body dissatisfaction. Cognitive and behavioural therapy is effective for treating many psychiatric disorders but often fails to treat anorexia nervosa and body image distortions. Although patients are aware of their weight loss, they continue to feel overweight - as if there were a conflict between a previous (maybe already false) body representation and the new one. These distortions are linked to negative emotions focused on the body but which can extend to the self (e.g. disgust and sadness).

Case presentation

The present case report is the first in which the Appraisal Tendency Framework has been applied to decrease body image disto

SUBMITTER: Metral M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6172742 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature