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Bodies Beyond Measure: Clinical Disclosure

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Many psychometric instruments have been introduced over the course of the last few years to help reveal body image disorder. More specifically, these are devices or questionnaires designed to investigate various components of body representations: perceptive, affective and cognitive.

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Faccio, E. (2013). Bodies Beyond Measure: Clinical Disclosure. In: The Corporeal Identity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5680-3_6

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