DR DAVID VEALE is a Consultant Psychiatrist in cognitive behavior therapy at the South London and Maudsley Trust and The Priory Hospital North London. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is an accredited cognitive behavior therapist and was President of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies from 2006 to 2008. He sat on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) working group that provided guidelines for treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) in the UK. He has about 70 publications to his name, and his own website: www.veale.co.uk. He runs a national specialist service for BDD at the Maudsley Hospital, London.

ROB WILLSON is a cognitive behavior therapist in private practice. He is a tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He holds an honours degree in Psychology, an MSc in Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Social and Behavioral Health Studies. He has been involved in treating individuals with body image problems for the past 13 years. David Veale and Rob Willson are authors of Overcoming Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Manage Your Mood, also published by Robinson.

DR ALEX CLARKE is a consultant clinical psychologist in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Royal Free Hospital, Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Mental Health Sciences at the Royal Free and University College London Medical Schools, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Appearance Research at the University of the West of England. She has acted as consultant to the organization Changing Faces, a charity for individuals with disfigurement, and she has a particular interest in the psychological aspects of disfigurement and reconstructive surgery.