was also written by Katherine Phillips, along with Van Noppen, B.L., and Shapiro , L. We have no reviews of this book, and are not even sure if it's still available. But, here is the information on ordering a copy:
send $8.00, plus $2 S&H to:
OCF
337 Notch Hill Road
North Branford, CT 06471


Everything You Need to Know About Body Dysmorphic Disorder : Dealing With a Distorted Body Image (Need to Know Library),
written by Pamela Walker, also seems to be another book on BDD. I've never read it, and haven't heard of anybody else who has. I think I'm going to give it a try though, now that I've found it! I'll let you all know more about it once I've read it.



The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook ,
written by Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D., is a great, comprehensive resource for overcoming the common fears that are associated with BDD. It helps you understand your anxiety and fear, and better yet, gives you very detailed, helpful, and well researched advice as to how to tackle your problem. This book doesn't just tell you to take some drugs, but instead really delves into the root of the problem and takes a holistic approach to getting better.




Reinventing Your Life
This is really a great book written by Jeffrey Young and Janet Klosko. It's not specifically about BDD, but it helps you to figure out which negative patterns are dominant in your life, and teaches you step for step how to change them.






If You Had Controlling Parents
This book, by Dan Neuharth, has also helped me tremendously. It shows you how many of your beliefs you make and actions you take in your life today may be the effects of dysfunctional raising. This book teaches you to recognize this fact, and shows you how to move on and take your place in the world.





Body for Life
Excellent book by Bill Phillips! It has nothing to do with BDD, but it's really motivational, gives you confidence and hope, and makes you feel good both physically and mentally! That means, reduction of depression that often accompanies BDD! This exercise program teaches you how to get yourself on track, take care of yourself, and become the person that you want to be in 12 weeks. Best of all, I've tried it, and it works!



Free Yourself from Harmful Stress,
written by Trevor Powell, is a great, simple to follow self-help book. It covers such aspects as perfectionism, low self-esteem, confidence, and procrastination, to name just a few, and gives helpful tips on how to overcome problems in these areas.





What do you say after you say Hello?
is a book written by Eric Bern, and seems that used copies are only availabe at Amazon.com. I haven't personally read this one, but it comes highly recommended. It's supposedly about life and human interactions.



Interpretation of Dreams,
written by Freud, is a turn-of-the-century tour de force that outlined his theory of unconscious forces in the context of dream analysis. Introducing the id, the superego, and their problem child, the ego, Freud advanced scientific understanding of the mind immeasurably by exposing motivations normally invisible to our consciousness




Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy
is an advanced text, written by Petruska Clarkson, for psychotherapists and counselors who use the theory and techniques of transactional analysis in their practice. It provides a comprehensive guide to goal-setting and clinical planning for every stage of treatment, with problems of technique illustrated throughout by clinical vignettes and case material.



The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession
is another book written by Katherine Phillips and Roberto Olivardia. Although not entirely written on BDD, it does seem to cover the topic, and has been wirrten with a male audience in mind, although is probably interesting to females as well.

The Noonday Demon: An Anatomy of Depression
Written by Andrew Solomon. It describes itself as “the new millennium’s key text on depression, stress, and how we live today,” and you can’t disagree with that, even though it’s slightly misleading in the way Andrew Solomon explains his own depression. If you do read this one, be careful when you get to the chapter about Angel Starkey because it will break your heart. Her life is the equal-saddest story I’ve ever heard.

Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide
Written by Kay Redfield Jamison, Professor of Psychiatry at John Hopkins School of Medicine, and a sufferer of manic-depression. Like Angel Starkey, the story of Drew Sopirak (and others) will probably break your heart, but Dr. Redfield Jamison is a wise and very nice person, and you could learn a lot as well.

Till We Have Faces
Written by C.S. Lewis. I recommend this more because of other people’s responses than my own – people who love this book – and because C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite writers. It’s the story of two sisters – princesses – one ugly, and one beautiful. Part of it retells the story of Psyche and Cupid. (If you didn’t know, Cupid, even though he loved Psyche, would only visit her at night, and he wouldn’t let her see his face. One night, though, when he was asleep, Psyche used a lamp to look at him and woke him up when some oil dropped to his shoulder. When he saw the light he ran (or flew) away.) The rest is about the “ugly” princess and what people do when they think they love someone. There is even some sword-fighting, although not Samurai-style.

Hans Christian Andersen
The Life of a Storyteller by Jackie Wullschlager. I hope you read this one, because most people don’t know very much about him, and also because he was a man who struggled with his looks and made something of it. If you don’t know anything about him, this is what he wrote after being told that his mother had died:

“My first reaction was: Thanks be to God! Now there is an end to her sufferings, which I haven’t been able to allay. But even so, I cannot get used to the thought that I am so utterly alone without a single person who must love me because of the bond of blood.”

Almost thirty years later – and after having had his photo taken – Jackie Wullschlager writes in her book that “Andersen, who was generally convinced that he was ugly, was ebullient about the result.” To a close friend, he wrote: “I’ve never seen such a lovely and yet life-like portrait of myself. I was completely surprised, astonished, that the sunlight could make such a beautiful figure of my face. I feel unbelievably flattered, yet it is only a photograph. You’ll get to see it, it is the only portrait which my vanity allows me to leave to those coming after me. How the young ladies will exclaim “And he never got married!””

If I were God, I’d End All the Pain
Written by John Dickson (whose father died when he was ten). This book looks at the major religions, and Atheism, to see who has the best answer for pain and evil and suffering. It’s printed in Australia.

De l’Amour
Written by Stendhal. Not exactly related to BDD, but if you read the first chapter and keep going till the end, many times you will stop and ask, “Why didn’t someone tell me this when I was fifteen? Everyone should know this.”