Approaches to body image--Elements of body image--The cognitive-behavioural approach to body image and its disturbance--Disfigurement and its consequences--Disfigurement and stigma--Desfigurement and social interaction--Psychosocial disturbance in disfigurement,and its treatment--Using the cognitive-behavioural approach to disturbed body image--Support for a cognitive-behavioural approach--Treatment implications of the cognitive-behavioural approach