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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2010 Jun;27(6):573–591. doi: 10.1002/da.20709

TABLE 1.

DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

  1. Preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance. If a slight physical anomaly is present, the person’s concern in markedly excessive.

  2. The preoccupation causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

  3. The preoccupation is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., dissatisfaction with body shape and size in Anorexia Nervosa).