Distorted body image definition of Distorted body image in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

Body Image

the reflection of one’s own body in one’s consciousness, including the outline, dimensions, and boundaries of the body and the relative position of its parts as well as clothing, footwear, habitual articles and tools, prostheses, and the like. A body image is continuously being developed and altered in the course of one’s life.

The concept of body image is used in the study of various mental disturbances—such as depersonalization, impaired perception of right and left, nonrecognition of the parts of one’s body or the sense of their being spatially estranged, the phenomenon of phantom limbs, and the fantasy of a “double”—for purposes of topical diagnosis (for example, of a lesion in the right parietal region) as well as to solve practical problems in prosthetics. In aviation and aerospace psychology the concept of body image is applied to problems of spatial orientation (as in the system man-spacecraft-surrounding space, for example, or illusions regarding spatial location).

REFERENCES

Meerovich, R. I. Rasstroistva “skhemy tela” pri psikhkheskikh zabolevaniiakh. Leningrad, 1948.
Giliarovskii, V. A. “Chto takoe ’skhema tela’ v svete dannykh nashikh fiziologov.” Vestnik Akademii meditsinskikh nauk SSSR, 1958, no. 10.
Gorbov, F. D. “Problemy kosmicheskoi psikhofiziologii.” In the collection Chelovek vyshel v kosmicheskoe prostranstvo. Moscow, 1966.

F. D. GORBOV

Mentioned in	?		References in periodicals archive	?		Encyclopedia browser	?		Full browser	?
No references found	Although symptoms indicate an eating disorder, the roots are deeply psychological and have to do with a distorted body image. Weight Loss- Do Genetics Play a Major Role in Determining Weight by Semul Johnson / Food/cooking/nutrition community In addition to a failure to respond appropriately to signals of hunger, symptoms of anorexia - such as distorted body image and diminished motivation to change - could be related to disturbed interoceptive awareness. Review sheds new light on causes of anorexia by Asian News International Sufferers have a distorted body image and continue to see themselves as weedy when they look in the mirror, even after they've bulked up. Drugs for brawn pump up danger; Dear Miriam by The Mirror (London, England)	Distich distichous distillate distillate fuel distillate fuel oil Distillation distillation column distillation curve distillation loss distillation range distillation test distilled liquor distilled mustard gas Distilled Water distiller distillery Distillery Residue Distilling Apparatus distilling flask distinct Distinctive Features distinguished name Distinguished Service Cross distoclusion distome Distorted body image distorted water Distortion distortion factor distortion meter distortional wave Distraction distrail distress distress frequency distress signal distressed distributary distributary channel distributed amplifier distributed bulletin board distributed capacitance distributed circuit distributed collector distributed communications Distributed Component Object Model distributed computing Distributed Computing Environment distributed constant distributed control system Distributed Data Management	distome distometer distomiasis distomiasis distomiasis distomolar Distomum haematobium Distomum hepaticum Distonia Distonia Distonia Distopia Distopia Distopia Distopian Distopian Distopian distopulpal distort distort distort distort distort intentionally distort the meaning distort the truth distortable distorted distorted Distorted (band) Distorted (band) Distorted body image Distorted Born Iterative Method Distorted Born Iterative Method for Strong Permittivity Fluctuation distorted conception Distorted Coulomb-Born Distorted Coulomb-Born Approximation Distorted Coulomb-Born Exchange Approximation Distorted Coulomb-Born No-Exchange Approximation distorted film fault distorted film fault distorted film fault Distorted Frequency Selective Channel distorted idea distorted impression distorted shape distorted thinking distorted thought self-control distorted water Distorted Wave Infinite Order Sudden Approximation Distorted Wave Polarized Orbital Distorted Wave Second-Order Born Approximation Distorted-Wave Approximation With Exchange Distorted-Wave Born Approximation Distorted-Wave Born Approximation with Exchange Distorted-Wave Born Exchange Distorted-Wave Energy Sudden Distorted-Wave First-Order Born Approximation

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

Encyclopedia browser

Full browser

No references found

Although symptoms indicate an eating disorder, the roots are deeply psychological and have to do with a distorted body image.

Weight Loss- Do Genetics Play a Major Role in Determining Weight by Semul Johnson / Food/cooking/nutrition community

In addition to a failure to respond appropriately to signals of hunger, symptoms of anorexia - such as distorted body image and diminished motivation to change - could be related to disturbed interoceptive awareness.

Review sheds new light on causes of anorexia by Asian News International

Sufferers have a distorted body image and continue to see themselves as weedy when they look in the mirror, even after they've bulked up.

Drugs for brawn pump up danger; Dear Miriam by The Mirror (London, England)