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Body Image in Anorexia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2018

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The term ‘body image’ is used to refer to the picture we have in our minds of the size, shape and form of our bodies; and to our feelings concerning the size, shape and form of our bodies, and its constituent parts.

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Copyright © 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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