1987'2, p.113
Kreslavsky E. S.
Overweight and physical image of Self
(RESUME)

The data is given obtained in the study of people suffering from alimentary-constitutional forms of obesity. It is shown that their images of Self are determined by social-cultural standards of man's physical appearance. The standards are found to be different at different stages of ontogenetical development; they may also vary depending on self-estimation and on the character of interpersonal relations of the obese people. A hypothesis is put forward that depressive-anxiety reactions to the loss of weight in people suffering from overweight since childhood are basically a result of transformation of the physical image of Self.