An empirically derived recommendation for the classification of body dysmorphic disorder: Findings from structural equation modeling.
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), together with its subtype muscle dysmorphia (MD), has been relocated from the Somatoform Disorders category in the DSM-IV to the newly created Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders category in the DSM-5.Both categorizations have been criticized, and an empirically derived classification of BDD is lacking.A commu