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Towards the Unification of Body Image Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2018

Andrew C. P. Sims
Andrew C. P. Sims*
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University of Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK
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The sensations produced were those of exquisite lightness and airiness … I expected to be lifted up and carried away by the first breeze … the walls of my frame were burst outward and tumbled into ruin, and without thinking what form I wore … I felt that I existed throughout a vast extent of space. The blood pulsed from my head, sped through uncounted leagues before it reached my extremities; the air drawn into my lungs expanded into seas of limpid ether, and the arch of my skull was broader than the vault of heaven … I was a mass of transparent jelly, and a confectioner poured me into a twisted mould. (Taylor, 1856)

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue S2: The Psychopathology of Body Image , 1988 , pp. 51 - 55
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Copyright © 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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