BDD Conference 2016: Psychological Understanding & Treatment of BDD - Professor David Veale

The Second International Conference on Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) was held at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK on 26 November 2016.

Psychological Understanding & Treatment of BDD is presented by Professor David Veale. Professor Veale is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and The Priory Hospital North London, where he directs a national specialist service for people with BDD. He is a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He has co-authored with Rob Willson and Alex Clarke a self-help book on Overcoming Body Image Problems including BDD and with Fugen Neziroglu a treatment manual for BDD for professionals. He was chair of the NICE Evidence Update on OCD and BDD in 2013 and a member of the working group that produced the NICE guidelines on OCD and BDD in 2005. He is currently a trustee of the BDD Foundation and has been a Trustee of the of OCD Action since 1993 and was actively involved in organizing user conferences for anxiety disorders for several years. He was a member of the World Health Organization’s International Advisory group for writing the new diagnostic criteria for OCD and related disorders such as BDD. He has been researching BDD for nearly 20 years and has published about 40 scientific and teaching articles in BDD. He was motivated to improve the care of people with BDD after the suicide of one of his in-patients with BDD in 1991. His personal website is www.veale.co.uk

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