The Phobia of Looking Ugly
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The majority of patients with this disorder experience extreme distress for their supposed deformity, often describing their preoccupations as "intensely painful", "excruciating", or "devastating." Most find their preoccupations difficult to control, and make little or no attempt to resist. As a result, they often spend many hours a day to think about their "defect" and how to remedy them (sometimes resorting to cosmetic surgery or self-manipulation that can worsen the situation), so that these thoughts may dominate their lives. This phobia is seen mostly in adolescents of both sexes and is closely linked to changes in the age of puberty. If these phobias affect adults it is more serious, because by the end of adolescence, the person should acquire a sense of confidence in itself would allow it the opportunity to relate harmoniously with others, without being afflicted by inferiority complexes bound physical appearance. Hence the inability to weave balanced social and sexual relations, resulting in social isolation, aggressive drives and dystonia related to sexuality. The phobia interferes with the individual's normal routine, occupational functioning, or with school or with social activities and relationships. The discomfort becomes increasingly limiting. The person may develop obsessive behaviors harmful to their health, as, in severe cases, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, self-mutilating behavior (using razor blades, needles, scissors, etc.).
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The Phobia of Looking Ugly - Marcel Garnier
The Phobia of Looking Ugly
Marcel Garnier
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INDEX
Introduction
The Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The Various Forms of Disorder
The Diagnostic Criteria
The Causes of the Disorder
The Parts of the Body Focused
Epidemiologic Research
The Narcissus Complex
The dynamics of the Mirror
The Fear of Being Abnormal
Image Disorder
Dysmorphophobia and Nervous Tension
Related Disorders
The Aesthetic Intervention
Dysmorphophobia and Body Weight
The Muscular dysmorphophobia
The Perspective Sophrofrological
The Psychological Approach
The Sociological Interpretation
Neurobiological Theory
Dysmorphophobia in Childhood
Remedies and Cures
The Pharmacological Treatment
Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy Emoto-cognitive
The Brief Strategic Therapy
Contraindications to Treatment
Bibliography
INTRODUCTION
The dysmorphophobia is a psychological disorder characterized by excessive concern about a really existing physical defect or perceived as real. In subjects affected the awareness of having an imperfection in the physical layer is capable of affecting the relational life, undermining self-esteem, creating insecurity, and often leading to isolation or lead to anxiety in phobic-obsessive behavior. As with all the fears become pathological, the dysmorphophobia is a very uncomfortable limiting the psychological well-being that affects daily life, interpersonal relationships, at work, with a strong impact on behavior. The disorder affects especially adolescents of both sexes. Girls often tend to look fat, they fix the shape of the breasts, hair, thighs and hips while men tend to develop excessive anxiety for the penis, testicles and hair. When that is the normal insecurity of his own body linked to adolescence is transformed into phobia may arise related disorders, such as emotional distress, anorexia, bulimia, in an attempt to correct the defect at all costs perceived as a source of discomfort and all the problems relational and existential. The majority of patients with this disorder experience extreme distress for their supposed deformity, often describing their preoccupations as intensely painful
, excruciating
, or devastating.
Most find their preoccupations difficult to control, and make little or no attempt to resist. As a result, they often spend many hours a day to think about their defect
and how to remedy them (sometimes resorting to cosmetic surgery or self-manipulation that can worsen the situation), so that these thoughts may dominate their lives. This phobia is seen mostly in adolescents of both sexes and is closely linked to changes in the age of puberty. If these phobias affect adults it is more serious, because by the end of adolescence, the person should acquire a sense of confidence in itself would allow it the opportunity to relate harmoniously with others, without being afflicted by inferiority complexes bound physical appearance. Hence the inability to weave balanced social and sexual relations, resulting in social isolation, aggressive drives and dystonia related to sexuality. The phobia interferes with the individual's normal routine, occupational functioning, or with school or with social activities and relationships. The discomfort becomes increasingly limiting. The person may develop obsessive behaviors harmful to their health, as, in severe cases, anorexia nervosa or bulimia, self-mutilating behavior (using razor blades, needles, scissors, etc.) And propensity to suicide.
The term dysmorphophobia
derives from the greek fear (phobos) or a distorted form of dysmorphia (dys-morphe). which means deformities, was coined in 1886 by Morselli, to describe a subjective feeling of deformity or physical defect, for which the patient believes to be noticed by others, despite their appearance is within normal limits.
This definition, although more than a century old, captures in full the clinical features of this disorder and the most recent classification systems of mental illnesses formulate their diagnostic criteria for dysmorphophobia taking what was already inherent in the original definition given by Morselli. The disturbance was then described by Emil Kraepelin, who regarded him as a compulsive neurosis, and Pierre Janet, who called it obsession de la honte du corp
(obsession with shame of the body). The body dysmorphic disorder is a condition poorly designed, in part because patients are usually consult dermatologists, plastic surgeons or internists, rather than psychiatrists, body dysmorphic disorder or a variant may be relatively common. Available data indicate that the most common age of onset is between 15 and 20 years and that women are somewhat more frequently affected than men, usually. The body dysmorphic disorder commonly coexists with other mental disorders. One study found that over 90% of patients with body dysmorphic disorder had experienced a major depressive episode during their lifetime, 70% had presented an anxiety disorder and 30% about a psychotic disorder.
THE BODY DYSMORPHIC DISORDER
Dimorphism Disorder Body, part of the broader category of somatoform disorders, whose principal feature is the presence of physical symptoms that might initially suggest a general medical condition, but in fact are not justified neither by this nor by the effects of a substance or by another mental disorder. Specifically, the key feature of Body Dysmorphic Disorder is the excessive preoccupation with a defect (real or imaginary) physical appearance. The person focuses on the defect
, which tends in this way to become the dominant thought in his everyday life, inevitably to involve all areas of his life. The importance of a good body image of themselves and the cultural importance that is given to the physical, they can somehow influence or enhance existing concerns about an alleged defect
physical. Usually this disorder is found equally among men and women. The age of onset is attributable to the period of adolescence, but often the problem emerges after years, as people with dysmorphia rarely reveal their symptoms. The Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a disorder that is defined in psychology emoto-cognitive based anxious, where frequently there are also obsessive personality traits (control and recurrent defect
, dominating thoughts that focus on physical appearance), avoidant traits (often social withdrawal), and whether employees. Individuals with Body Dysmorphic Disorder organize their lives around the defect
, often spending most of their day to control their appearance directly, or any reflective surface available to them (windows, car windshields, clocks, mirrors etc..). Exaggerated behaviors may emerge clean about their appearance, which require much time to the subject (ritualized application of cosmetics, excesses in combing the hair or take off, manipulation of the skin etc..). Some individuals with this disorder, alternating periods in which they put in place too much control of its own imperfection, with periods of complete avoidance coming to completely avoid any reflective surface (e. by removing or covering mirrors). Although the control of the supposed physical defect, and the rituals of care associated with it, whose purpose is to decrease the anxiety associated with the defect, in reality these attempts not only fail, but take up psychophysiological stress, which subsequently become symptom- specifications, in turn fueling the concerns and suffering related to physical appearance. This situation triggers what is called in psychology emoto-cognitive dysfunctional loop or circular process that redundant fact of behavior, thoughts or their actions and the environment in which the person lives, which tend to maintain and worsen the problem rather than solve it. Individuals with body dysmorphic disorder are usually requiring constant reassurance about their physical appearance, but the relief that the subject provides is nil or only temporary. The continued demand for reassurance, often directed at family members or people who are in daily contact with the person with deformity, often leads to a reorganization of the entire system around the symptom. Often patients with dysmorphia think that they are objects of derision from others, because of their physical appearance (or down), why they can get to hide your default
(e. Wearing a hat to hide an alleged baldness by growing a beard to hide any unsightly scars withholding) or daily activities to avoid extreme social isolation, coming out of school or to avoid job interviews (e. emerging only at night when the subject cannot be seen, or even for staying at home all year). The avoidant behavior implemented by these entities should not be confused with Avoidant Personality Disorder or Social Phobia, as people who have this type of disturbance, although they may feel a strong embarrassment because of some physical defect is real, this concern not appear to be predominantly or cause distress or impairment. The avoidance and a tendency to