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J. Kevin Thompson, PhD; Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD; Madeline N. Altabe, PhD; and Stacey Tantleff-Dunn, PhD
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LIST PRICE: $29.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $24.95
396 pages
ITEM #: 4317004
ISBN: 1-55798-987-7
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-987-1
PUBLICATION DATE: June 2004
EDITION: Softcover
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Tennis star Andre Agassi said, "Image is everything." This may seem like an exaggeration, but for many people, how they feel about their appearance means everything. Body image is a powerful factor in how people feel about themselves. If one suffers from body image disturbance, it often leads to a host of difficulties, ranging from low self-esteem to bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and body dysmorphic disorder.
Successfully integrating explanations from social, interpersonal, feminist, and behavioral-cognitive psychology, Exacting Beauty is packed with invaluable research, case histories and descriptions, and treatment guidance. Clinicians, practitioners, and researchers will value this book for its rich, up-to-date coverage of how psychology grapples with the troubling relationship between psychological health and body image.
This softcover edition is a re-release of the 1998 hardcover edition.
Book Review
Exacting Beauty is a valuable and comprehensive text written in a scholarly fashion, offering discussion of a broad range of issues related to body-image research, assessment, and treatment.
—Australian Psychologist, November 1999
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