The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks [Paperback]

Thomas Cash PhD (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2, 2008

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to accept and enjoy the way you look instead of constantly worrying about and criticizing your appearance? What if instead of focusing on your flaws, you felt confident with the body you have right now?

If you don't like what you see when you look in the mirror, you may not realize that these feelings are entirely within your grasp. You don't need extensive cosmetic surgery, pricey beauty treatments, or weight loss programs, but you may need to do something even more drastic-change your perspective and the way you view yourself. The Body Image Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more confident about the way you look.

As you complete the helpsheets in this book, you'll learn to celebrate your body instead of feeling ashamed of it. This new edition includes discussions of our obsession with physical appearance and with body-fixing options. It helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance. After completing this eight-step program, you'll look at yourself in a whole new light-seeing the beauty of the real you.

Editorial Reviews

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"The problem of body image dissatisfaction is sadly epidemic in today's world. To dislike your own body is to dislike yourself. A negative body image needlessly diminishes the quality of your life. The arrival of The Body Image Workbook brings hoped-for relief. Dr. Cash is an acclaimed professional whose eight-step program is sensitive and solution-giving."
—Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Dr. Cash is one of the most sensitive and sympathetic voices on the subject of body image. He brings knowledge and care, intelligence and kindness to a complicated, loaded issue. The Body Image Workbook offers a clear road map to understanding body image problems and relieving them."
—Linda Wells, editor-in-chief, Allure magazine, former beauty editor, New York Times

"Dr. Cash has a knack for translating the best of what science offers into something friendly, supportive, and helpful."
—Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University

"This workbook admirably fulfills the author's objective and promise. It is useful, empathetic, thorough, and common-sensed. My feedback for the author? Nothing, except congratulations!"
—Robert M. Goldwyn, MD, clinical professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, Division of Plastic Surgery, former chief of plastic surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

"The suffering associated with body image distress can dramatically undermine one's quality of life. Incisively extracting the most helpful findings from thirty years of scientific research and clinical experience, Cash has very effectively created a beautifully organized body image workbook that will help many people. His program offers both hope for relief from body image suffering and practical strategies that can make that hope a reality."
—Thomas Pruzinsky, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT

"Cash has produced an excellent revision of The Body Image Workbook. The content is clear, appropriate, and based firmly on published research evidence. Therapeutic techniques that we know are helpful are presented in an accessible and supportive style, with clear guidance and useful help sheets to enable readers to develop new skills and to monitor change. This is essential reading for anyone with body image concerns. It is also a useful resource for professional therapists who wish to help clients who are experiencing distressing body-related thoughts and feelings."
—Dr Sarah Grogan, professor of health psychology at Staffordshire University, Staffordshire, UK, and author of Body Image: Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women, and Children

From the Publisher

Based on author Thomas Cash's clinically tested program, this major revision of The Body Image Workbook offers those who are concerned or distressed about their body image an eight-step program for transforming their relationships with their bodies.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications; Second Edition edition (July 2, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572245468
• ISBN-13: 978-1572245464
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent workbook for people with a wide range of body image concerns, April 22, 2010

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This workbook is excellent and provides practical tips and coping strategies for a wide range of people with body image concerns. Optimally used when working with a therapist - but does provide a lot of self-help activities that can be useful for the motivated individual. Body image concerns are so common and prevalent in our society. Dr. Cash has truly done an outstanding job here finding ways to connect with and help those suffering from appearance-related difficulties.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It helped me!, July 21, 2010

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Merri Lee Frusti "LuvPsych" (Spokane,) - See all my reviews
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I think the quizzes and exercises in this book really helped me become aware of how I feel about my body. After I was through reading and working through it, I genuinely felt better about my body. The most useful part was weakening my reactions to what I saw in the mirror. I would recommend this book to anyone who constantly compares themselves to other people!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Body Image Workbook, March 29, 2009

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Paola Covarrubias (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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I strongly recommend this workbook for anybody struggling with an eating disorder, especially good for working with in therapy.