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Bio-Psycho-Social Contributions to Understanding Eating Disorders

  • Provides an integrative, holistic perspective combining the influences of medical, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of EDs

  • Adds novel and at times controversial state-of-the-art perspectives to the mainstream study of EDs

  • Integrates unique observations of EDs as a symptom of women’s distress in their struggle for role definition and identity transition

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Medical Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Relationship Between Binge Eating and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

      • Allan S. Kaplan, Andrew L. Howlett, Zeynep Yilmaz, Robert Levitan
      Pages 3-15
    3. The Interplay Between Eating and Sleeping Behavior in Adolescence: Normative and Disordered Trajectories

      • Yael Latzer, Sarah L. Weinberger-Litman, Leib Litman, Orna Tzicshinsky
      Pages 17-34
    4. Endocrinopathies of Eating Disorders

      • Nehama Zuckerman-Levin, Yael Latzer, Patricia E. Dunne, Ze’ev Hochberg
      Pages 35-49
    5. Skeletal Involvement in Eating Disorders

      • Nehama Zuckerman-Levin, Yael Latzer, Patricia E. Dunne, Ze’ev Hochberg
      Pages 51-61
  3. Psychological Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
    2. Suicidal Behavior in Eating Disorders

      • Lisa Rachelle Riso Lilenfeld
      Pages 65-75
    3. Mothers with Eating Disorders: The Environmental Factors Affecting Eating-Related Emotional Difficulties in Their Offspring

      • Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit, Rachel Levy-Shiff, Anca Ram, Eitan Gur, Eynat Zubery, Evelyne Steiner et al.
      Pages 77-90
  4. Sociocultural Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. The Characteristics of Pro-Ana Community

      • Meyran Boniel-Nissim, Yael Latzer
      Pages 155-167
    3. Spiritual Self Starvation En-Route to Salvation

      • Eliezer Witztum, Daniel Stein, Yael Latzer, Moshe Kalian
      Pages 169-180
    4. Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Among Jewish Women: The Role of Religious Orientation and Spiritual Well-Being

      • Sarah L. Weinberger-Litman, Laura A. Rabin, Joshua Fogel, Janell L. Mensinger
      Pages 181-202

About this book

This book uniquely combines cutting-edge medical, psychological, and sociocultural topics pertinent to eating disorders. In the medical realm, the book focuses on Eating Disorders’ newly investigated associations with ADHD and sleep disorders, and on innovative treatments of osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa. Novel contributions in the psychological realm address families’ trans-generational transmission of Eating Disorders-related difficulties and novel internet-based treatments for such families. Lastly, in the sociocultural realm, the book discusses social contagion and Pro-Ana websites as increasing risk for disordered eating in young women around the globe.

This volume provides readers with more holistic perspectives of each realm and their interplay, to promote Eating Disorders’ understanding, treatment, prevention, and research. It provides various professionals including mental health providers, physicians, nutritionists, and graduate students in these professions.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Social Welfare and Health Sciences, Haifa University, Mount Carmel Haifa, Israel

    Yael Latzer

  • Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

    Daniel Stein

About the editors

Yael Latzer, DSC is the founder and director of the Eating Disorders Institute, Psychiatric Division at Rambam Medical Center, Haifa.  She is a full professor, and the director of the Nutrition Behaviour and Health master program at the Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Daniel Stein, MD is the director of the Pediatric Psychosomatic Department, Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He is a full professor (clinical) at the Department of Psychiatry and Head of the Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, University of Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Bio-Psycho-Social Contributions to Understanding Eating Disorders

  • Editors: Yael Latzer, Daniel Stein

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32742-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32740-2Published: 21 July 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81359-2Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32742-6Published: 13 July 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 202

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Sociology, general, Clinical Psychology

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eBook USD 84.99
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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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