Cognitive-behavioral treatment of body image disturbance in a congenitally blind patient with anorexia nervosa

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-20

  Thomas, Jennifer J ^a,b,c   Weigel, Thomas J ^a,b,c   Lawton, Robert K ^a,b,c   Levendusky, Philip G ^a,b,c   Becker, Anne E ^a,b,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; MODAFINIL; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE;

ADULT; ALBINISM; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE DISTURBANCE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL BLINDNESS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; READING; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WRITING; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BLINDNESS; BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863406151     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: 15357228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2010.10040555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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