Body Dysmorphic Disorders Paper

The disorder was initially identified in a study by H. G. Pope (1993) of male bodybuilders and categorised as reverse anorexia, due to some participants exhibiting behavioural and cognitive correspondences to patients suffering from anorexia nervosa. It has since been subcategorized as body dysmorphic disorder, as individuals with the disorder being motivated to engage in unhealthy strategies for weight management and increasing muscularity. (Olivardia, 2001; Grieve & Shacklette, 2012; Grieve, 2007; Grieve, Truba, & Bowersox, 2009; Pope, Gruber, Choi, Olivardia, & Phillips, 1997).

The American Psychiatric Association put forward in 2010, that muscle dysmorphia be included in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a category of body dysmorphic disorder, and muscle dysmorphia was defined as ‘’the belief that one’s body is too small or is insufficiently muscular’’ (2014, ‘’F 01 Body Dysmorphic Disorder’’). A muscle dysmorphia specifier was added to body dysmorphic disorder in the DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) despite researchers still unable to reach an
(2012) found that Blashfield et al.’s (1990) criteria three and criteria four had not been met and suggested future research examining the reliability and validity of diagnostic characteristics which included inter-rater reliability; and future research should address if muscle dysmorphia characterizes a syndrome that consists of symptoms that recurrently co-occur. The review correspondingly shown that criteria five had not been met, and recommendations into future studies investigating whether muscle dysmorphia would be able to sufficiently from similar syndromes. Nieuwoudt et al. (2012) Scientific Research is needed to gain a better understanding of muscle dysmorphia symptomatology, providing an investigation into the symptomatic relationships among muscle dysmorphia, body dysmorphic disorder, and eating disorders. (Harvey & Robinson,