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By: Janet Treasure , Ulrike SchmidteBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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This second edition of the Handbook of Eating Disorders offers a comprehensive, critical account of the whole field of eating disorders, incorporating both basic knowledge and a synthesis of the most recent developments in the area.
Many of the important developments in recent years are reflected in this expanded volume such as the basic science of appetite control, the discovery of leptin and the knowledge about the neurotramsmitters involved in eating.
An invaluable review of scientific knowledge and approaches to treatment of eating disorders from anorexia nervosa to obesity.
* Covers basic concepts and science, clinical considerations of definition and assessment, and treatment approaches
* Focuses on newer developments in research and treatment
* Reflects evidence-based approaches to treatment as a guide to best practice
* Includes many new chapters and authors who represent the most authoritative scientists and clinicians worldwide
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| Title of eBook: Handbook of Eating Disorders 2e | |
| Release Date: 06-27-2003 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Handbook of Eating Disorders 2e
Chapter One
Concepts of Eating Disorders
Bob Palmer University of Leicester, Brandon Mental Health Unit, Leicester General Hospital, UK
The nosology of mental disorders inevitably dithers between the wish to delineate useful categories and the hope of discovering natural kinds. It would be good to achieve both but each aspiration alone is elusive enough. Indeed, some would reckon the second hope to be forlorn and there has been a tendency to emphasise the pragmatic and the descriptive. The current classifications-ICD-10 and DSM-IV-are the offspring of this tendency (WHO, 1992; APA, 1994). Yet there is a nagging feeling that there are 'real' disorders out there to be discovered rather than merely defined.
Within the field of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa crystallised out as a separate and distinct disorder over the course of the last century (Mount Sinai, 1965). It had the advantage of one criterion that was both undisputed and easy to measure, namely low weight. However, it was the description of the characterising beliefs and behaviours that led to the disorder being separated off from other states with weight loss. Furthermore, it was the description of similar beliefs and behaviours in people of unremarkable weight that led to the definition of bulimia nervosa and its relatives. However, it is arguably when the definition of mental disorder relies upon the mental state-as it almost inevitably should-that classifi
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