Main 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