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How Anorexics See Themselves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Eric Button
Eric Button*
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Royal Free Hospital
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The tendency of anorexic patients to overestimate their own body size was one element of Bruch's (1962) concept of body image disorder. The first experimental validation of this tendency was reported by Slade and Russell (1973), who also demonstrated that overestimation was directly related to a poor prognosis and that patients tended to become more accurate with therapeutically induced weight gain.

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Annual Meeting 1977: Abstracts of Papers
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , November 1977 , pp. 4
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1977

References

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