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"Childhood Abuse, Body Shame, and Addictive Plastic Surgery explores the psychopathology that plastic surgeons can encounter when seemingly excellent surgical candidates develop body dysmorphic disorder postoperatively. By examining how developmental abuse and neglect influence body image, addictions, and adult health, this highly-readable book uncovers the childhood sources of body dysmorphic disorder. Written from the unique perspective of a leading plastic surgeon with extensive experience in this area and featuring many poignant clinical vignettes and groundbreaking trauma research, this heavily-referenced text offers a new explanation for body dysmorphic disorder that provides help for therapists and surgeons and hope for patients"--

Body dysmorphic disorder. --- Body image disturbance. --- Psychic trauma in children. --- Surgery, Plastic. --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Child psychopathology --- Body image disorder --- Body image distortion --- Body image dysfunction --- Cognition disorders --- Dysmorphophobia --- Imagined ugliness --- Ugliness, Imagined --- Body image disturbance --- BDD --- body dissatisfaction --- body dysmorphia --- body dysmorphic disorder --- body shame --- cosmetic surgery --- emotional abuse --- Mark B. Constantian --- plastic surgery --- trauma