The results suggest that BDD patients have an unrealistic ideal or demand as to how they should look. BDD patients are more like depressed patients (rather than social phobics or bulimics), being more concerned with a failure to achieve their own aesthetic standard than with the perceived ideals of others.
This study extends two previous UK studies that looked at schizotypy in new religious movements (Peters, Day, McKenna & Orbach, 1999a; Day & Peters, 1999) using a similar religious subgroup from a different culture. A sample of American Hare Krishna devotees was compared with a non-religious control group on measures of delusional ideation, schizotypy and general well-being. The Hare Krishna group scored significantly higher than the control group on delusional ideation, but not other aspects of schizotypy or general well-being. They also scored higher on delusional conviction, but not distress and preoccupation. The findings provide cross-cultural confirmation for the notion of a continuum between normality and delusional thinking, and the need to consider delusional beliefs as multi-dimensional-psychological health seems to be predicated not on what you believe, but how you believe it.
The potential uses of the Internet to behavioural and cognitive
psychotherapists and researchers are manifold. This article summarizes what
the Internet is, how to connect to it, searching the Web, on-line
publishing, discussion forums, chat-rooms, literature searching, transfer
of documents and creating a web-site. It considers the potential of Internet
technology in therapy and enhancing patient/therapist contact. A web page
containing links to many of the sites referred to in this article as well as
additional links and resources is accessible through the BABCP website
(www.babcp.org.uk).
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