Full Description
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, personality, addictions, resilience, 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.
Contents
Foreword, David L. Corwin, MD
Preface
Acknowledgments
The First Piece: The Tip of the Thread
Chapter 1: Where the Thread Began: What Surgeons Learn From Patients and Their Families
Chapter 2: What the Mental Health Literature Says About Body Dysmorphic Disorder
The Second Piece: The Roots: Developmental Trauma and Its Effects
Chapter 3: The Valley of the Shadow: Core Issues and Parenting
Chapter 4: Body Image and Body Image Disorders
The Third Piece: The Fruits: How We Suffer and Medicate
Chapter 5: The Ways We Suffer: Body Shame and the Astounding Spectrum of Its Ravages
Chapter 6: The Ways We Medicate: Addictions and Behaviors Most Relevant to Body Image
The Fourth Piece: How Nature Copes
Chapter 7: The Effects of Trauma on Brain and Body
Chapter 8: Behavior, PTSD, and Surgical Compulsion in Plastic Surgery Patients: Trailing the Trauma Prevalence
The Fifth Piece: Toward the End of the Thread: Trauma, Body Image, Plastic Surgery, and Resilience
Chapter 9: Adverse Childhood Events in Medical and Plastic Surgery Patients and Their Effects on Adult Health, Personality, and Surgical Happiness
Chapter 10: Resilience: The Antidote and the Inspiration
Afterword
