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“Body Image” Disturbances in Psychiatric Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. Lukianowicz
N. Lukianowicz*
Affiliation:
Holywell Hospital, Antrim, Northern Ireland
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The Body Image is our concept of the shape, the size and the mass of our body and its parts. It allows us to evaluate the space which our body occupies, and thus enables us to move about freely in our environment.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 494 , January 1967 , pp. 31 - 47
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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