Cognitive Factors in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Abstract
Psychiatric Annals | Everyone is concerned about his or her appearance at times. Some people, however, become so concerned about lheir appearance that it interferes with their Life. Such people may quality for a diagnosis of body dysmorphic disorder (BDD).1BDD is a mental disorder characterized by a preoccupation with an imagined or slight defect in appearance (eg, shape or size of the nose) that the BDD sufferer