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CLINICAL PERFECTIONISM: A CASE REPORT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2004

Roz Shafran ,
Michelle Lee  and
Christopher G. Fairburn
Roz Shafran
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Michelle Lee
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
Christopher G. Fairburn
Affiliation:
University of Oxford, UK
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Abstract

The aim of this case report is to describe the impact of an intervention for clinical perfectionism, derived from a new cognitive-behavioural analysis, in a patient with binge-eating disorder. It was hypothesized that clinical perfectionism was contributing to the maintenance of the eating disorder, and on this basis it was predicted that reducing clinical perfectionism would improve her eating disorder psychopathology. Standardized independent assessments were found to be consistent with this hypothesis, in that clinical perfectionism and eating disorder psychopathology improved over an eight-session intervention and improvements were largely maintained at 5-month follow-up.

Keywords

Perfectionismcognitive-behaviour therapytheorytreatmenteating disorders
Type
Brief Clinical Reports
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 353 - 357
Copyright
© 2004 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies

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An extended version of this brief clinical report is available online in the table of contents for this issue: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_BCP
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