TY - JOUR A1 - Vocks, Silja A1 - Wächter, Alexandra A1 - Wucherer, Maike A1 - Kosfelder, Joachim T1 - Look at yourself: can body image therapy affect the cognitive and emotional response to seeing oneself in the mirror in eating disorders? T2 - European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association N2 - The study examined whether the extent of negative body-related thoughts and emotions evoked by looking in a mirror can be changed by cognitive-behavioural body image therapy (BIT) and whether any remaining cognitive and affective responses dropped faster after the treatment. Females with eating disorders (n = 17) looked in a mirror for 40 minutes under standardised conditions before and after BIT. A control group (CG) (n = 24) was also exposed to their own bodies twice. Cognitive and affective reactions were assessed four times during the session. Hierarchical Linear Modelling revealed that among eating-disordered patients, the entrance levels of negative thoughts and feelings were lower at post compared to pre-BIT, whereas they remained stable in the CG. The extent of reduction of the remaining body image distress was not changed after the treatment. BIT seems to be a potent treatment of negative emotions and cognitions in an in vivo situation. Y1 - 2008 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hs-duesseldorf/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2755 UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17721910 VL - 16 IS - 2 SP - 147 EP - 154 PB - Wiley ER -