The Eating Disorders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. History of Anorexia Nervosa

   • Andrew E. Slaby, Randall Dwenger

   Pages 1-17

3. A History of Bulimia

   • A. James Giannini

   Pages 18-21

4. The History of Obesity

   • Deirdre K. Kocjan, A. James Giannini

   Pages 22-28

5. The Presentation of Obesity

   • James R. Hodge, Erwin A. Maseelall

   Pages 29-43

6. The Biological Basis of Bulimia

   • Peter M. Bolo

   Pages 44-62

7. Biological Factors in Obesity

   • William S. Rea, Irl L. Extein

   Pages 63-75

8. Clinical Laboratory Aspects of Eating Disorders

   • David M. Martin, Carlton E. Turner, Brian K. Long

   Pages 76-92

9. Neuropsychiatric Approach to the Eating Disorder Patient

   • David A. Gross

   Pages 93-103

10. Anorexia in the Elderly

    • A. James Giannini

    Pages 104-109

11. Depression and Eating Disorders

    • Russell D. Marx

    Pages 110-127

12. Sexual Abuse and Its Relationship to Eating Disorders

    • Robert H. Loiselle

    Pages 128-132

13. Males with Eating Disorders

    • Barbara Eller

    Pages 133-146

14. The Medical Care of the Patient with an Eating Disorder

    • Joel R. L. Ehrenkranz

    Pages 147-157

15. Pediatric Management of Eating Disorders

    • Kurt J. Wegner, James A. Nard

    Pages 158-172

16. The B.A.S.H. Approach

    • Felix E. F. Larocca

    Pages 173-184

17. The Hospital Treatment of Eating Disorders

    • Michael M. Newman

    Pages 185-195

18. The Treatment of Obesity

    • Phillip M. Sinaikin

    Pages 196-212

19. Eating Disorders and Drug and Alcohol Dependency

    • Norman S. Miller

    Pages 213-226

20. Occupational Therapy Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

    • David J. Folts, Kent Tigges, Gary Jackson

    Pages 227-242

As fish must swim so must man drink and eat Titus Petronius Arbiter Examine thy customs of diet Francis Bacon For John eat & drank to drive away Loves pain But all he could do he grew thinner & thinner Tho he eat & drank as much as Ten men for dinner Some said he had a Wolf in his stomach day and night William Blake To paraphrase and cast in contemporary speech observations of the Gothic-era monk Bernard of Clairvaux, the eating disorders may be viewed as a corruption of the social process, a distortion of the body image, and a perversion of bodily processes. It is this multifactorial etiology that makes the diagnosis and treatment of dietary -disorders so difficult and frustrating. Because of social demands and a distorted (body) image, men and women have perverted the simple act of eating into always painful, sometimes tragic, and occasionally deadly outcomes. The eating disorders fall into three categories. There is obesity-the overconsumption of food, and its antithesis, anorexia-the act of vol­ untary starvation. In true Hegelian fashion, there follows the synthesis, bulimia-the voluntary purging of overconsumed amounts of food to produce an anorectic-like countenance. As the contributing authors em­ phasize in their chapters, these diseases are not unique to contemporary culture. Rather they are cultural artifacts, created by both men and women, since classical antiquity. The recognition of these diseases is dependent upon recognizing a disease actually exists: that there is a distortion of the eating process.

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa
• attention
• brain
• depression
• eating disorder
• genetics
• interaction
• intervention
• management
• nutrition
• obesity
• physiology
• therapy
• treatment

• Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

  A. James Giannini

• Youngstown, USA

  A. James Giannini

• Regent Hospital, New York, USA

  Andrew E. Slaby

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