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Katharine A. Phillips

Katharine A. Phillips

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Psychology

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33197
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656
National Ranking
415

Medicine

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99
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8649
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4459

Overview

Katharine A. Phillips is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on clinical aspects of psychology, with significant contributions in several interconnected subfields and topics.

The main fields of study for Phillips include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, their work is concentrated in the following subfields:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Cultural Studies
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

Key topics addressed in Phillips's research include:

  • Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies
  • Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies

Phillips has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication platforms are:

  • Psychiatry Research
  • Psychological Medicine
  • Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Phillips include:

  • Body dysmorphic disorder: a treatment synthesis and consensus on behalf of the International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders and the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Network of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2020, International Clinical Psychopharmacology)
  • Mechanisms of cognitive-behavioral therapy effects on symptoms of body dysmorphic disorder: a network intervention analysis (2021, Psychological Medicine)
  • Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Clinical Overview and Relationship to Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (2021, FOCUS The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry)
  • Predictors and moderators of symptom change during cognitive-behavioral therapy or supportive psychotherapy for body dysmorphic disorder (2021, Journal of Affective Disorders)
  • Mechanisms of Change in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Body Dysmorphic Disorder (2020, Cognitive Therapy and Research)

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors including:

  • Sabine Wilhelm
  • Jennifer L. Greenberg
  • Susanne S. Hoeppner
  • Ívar Snorrason
  • Emily E. Bernstein

Best Publications

  • The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession

    Harrison G. Pope;Katharine A. Phillips;Roberto Olivardia

  • The National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association consensus statement on the undertreatment of depression

    Robert M.A. Hirschfeld;Martin B. Keller;Susan Panico;Bernard S. Arons

  • Muscle dysmorphia. An underrecognized form of body dysmorphic disorder.

    Harrison G. Pope;Amanda J. Gruber;Amanda J. Gruber;Amanda J. Gruber;Precilla Choi;Precilla Choi;Precilla Choi;Roberto Olivardia;Roberto Olivardia;Roberto Olivardia

  • A severity rating scale for body dysmorphic disorder: development, reliability, and validity of a modified version of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale.

    Katharine A. Phillips;Eric Hollander;Steven A. Rasmussen;Bonnie R. Aronowitz

  • The Brown Assessment of Beliefs Scale: Reliability and Validity

    Jane L. Eisen;Katharine A. Phillips;Lee Baer;Douglas A. Beer

  • What is a mental/psychiatric disorder? from DSM-IV to DSM-V

    Dan J. Stein;Katharine A. Phillips;Derek Bolton;K.W.M Fulford

  • Demographic Characteristics, Phenomenology, Comorbidity, and Family History in 200 Individuals With Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    Katharine A. Phillips;William Menard;William Menard;Christina Fay;Christina Fay;Risa Weisberg;Risa Weisberg

  • Gender differences in body dysmorphic disorder.

    Katharine A. Phillips;Susan F. Diaz

  • A Review of Psychosocial Outcomes for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Surgery

    Roberta J. Honigman;Katharine A. Phillips;David J. Castle

  • The broken mirror : understanding and treating body dysmorphic disorder

    Katharine A. Phillips

  • Axis I Comorbidity in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    John Gunstad;Katharine A Phillips

  • Measuring “negative body image”: validation of the Body Image Disturbance Questionnaire in a nonclinical population

    Thomas F. Cash;Katharine A. Phillips;Melanie T. Santos;Joshua I. Hrabosky

  • Body dysmorphic disorder: the distress of imagined ugliness.

    Katharine A. Phillips

  • The DNA sequence and biological annotation of human chromosome 1

    S. G. Gregory;S. G. Gregory;K. F. Barlow;K. E. McLay;R. Kaul

  • OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: A REVIEW OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA AND POSSIBLE SUBTYPES AND DIMENSIONAL SPECIFIERS FOR DSM-V

    James F. Leckman;Damiaan Denys M.D.;H. Blair Simpson;David Mataix-Cols

  • A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Trial of Fluoxetine in Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    Katharine A. Phillips;Ralph S. Albertini;Steven A. Rasmussen

  • Surgical and Nonpsychiatric Medical Treatment of Patients With Body Dysmorphic Disorder

    Katharine A. Phillips;Jon Grant;Jason Siniscalchi;Ralph S. Albertini

  • Multidimensional body image comparisons among patients with eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and clinical controls: A multisite study

    Joshua I. Hrabosky;Thomas F. Cash;David Veale;Fugen Neziroglu

  • Clinical features of muscle dysmorphia among males with body dysmorphic disorder

    Courtney G. Pope;Harrison G. Pope;William Menard;Christina Fay

  • Obsessive compulsive spectrum disorder.

    McElroy Sl;Phillips Ka;Keck Pe

  • A current view of the interface between borderline personality disorder and depression.

    John G. Gunderson;Katharine A. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert L. Stout
Robert L. Stout Brown University
Sabine Wilhelm
Sabine Wilhelm Harvard University
Steven A. Rasmussen
Steven A. Rasmussen Brown University
Dan J. Stein
Dan J. Stein University of Cape Town
David J. Castle
David J. Castle University of Tasmania
Susan L. McElroy
Susan L. McElroy University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Jon E. Grant
Jon E. Grant University of Chicago
Lee Baer
Lee Baer Harvard University
John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
Harrison G. Pope
Harrison G. Pope Harvard University

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