Accept, distract, or reframe? An exploratory experimental comparison of strategies for coping with intrusive body image thoughts in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder

@article{Hartmann2015AcceptDO,
  title={Accept, distract, or reframe? An exploratory experimental comparison of strategies for coping with intrusive body image thoughts in anorexia nervosa and body dysmorphic disorder},
  author={Andrea Sabrina Hartmann and Jennifer Joanne Thomas and Jennifer L. Greenberg and Elizabeth Rosenfield and Sabine Wilhelm},
  journal={Psychiatry Research},
  year={2015},
  volume={225},
  pages={643-650},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:45568309}
}

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