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Recommended Books about Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Cash, Thomas F. (2008). The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks. New Harbinger Publications.

Claiborn, J., & Pedrick, C. (2002). The BDD workbook: Overcome body dysmorphic disorder and end body image obsessions. New Harbinger Publications.

Constantian, Mark. B. (2019). Childhood abuse, body shame, and addictive plastic surgery. Routledge.

Cuban, B. (2013). Shattered image: My triumph over body dysmorphic disorder. Net Minds Corporation.

Fugen, N. (2012). Overcoming body dysmorphic disorder: A cognitive behavioral approach to reclaiming your life. New Harbinger Publications.

Granet, S. (2020). Body dysmorphic disorder, mine and yours: A personal and clinical perspective. Toplight.

Hershfield, J. (2015). When a Family Member Has OCD: Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Skills to Help Families Affected by Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. New Harbinger Publications.

Phillips, K. A. (2005). The broken mirror: Understanding and treating body dysmorphic disorder. Oxford University Press.

Phillips, K. A. (2009). Understanding body dysmorphic disorder: An essential guide. Oxford University Press.

Phillips, K. A. (Ed.) (2017). Body dysmorphic disorder: Advances in research and clinical practice. Oxford University Press.

Schnackenberg, N., & Petro, S. (Eds.) (2016). Reflections on body dysmorphic disorder. Body Dysmorphic Disorder Foundation.

Schnackenberg, N., Jassi, A., & Monzani, B. (2021). The parent’s guide to body dysmorphic disorder. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Schnackenberg, N. (Ed.) (2023). Trauma-informed and embodied approaches to body dysmorphic disorder. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Veale, D., Willson, R., & Clarke, A. (2025). Overcoming body image problems including body dysmorphic disorder (overcoming books). Constable & Robinson, LTD.

Westwood, S. (2012). Body dysmorphic disorder-memoir. Chipmunka Publishing.

Wilhelm, S. (2006). Feeling good about the way you look: A program for overcoming body image problems. The Guilford Press.

Wilhelm, S., Phillips, K. A., Steketee, G. (2013). Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Treatment Manual. The Guilford Press.

Winograd, A. M. (2017). Face to face with body dysmorphic disorder. Taylor & Francis Group.

Wolf, J. (2003). Mirror mirror off the wall: A personal experience of intertwined obsessive/compulsive spectrum disorders: Body dysmorphic disorder and trichotillomania. Writers Club Press.

The BDD Foundation website provides more books about BDD, including self-help books for people with BDD, books written by people with BDD, and books for clinicians to learn more about treating BDD.