Abnormal Psychology

Eating Disorders 439 If, as you read Knapp’s description of her eating ritual, you were reminded of symptoms of obsessive-compul ...

440 CHAPTER 10 may not be as obvious to others include irritability, fatigue, and headaches (Mehler, 2003; Pomeroy, 2004). Peopl ...

Eating Disorders 441 Some people with anorexia may have such distorted thinking about their weight and body that they may come t ...

442 CHAPTER 10 Bulimia Nervosa Marya Hornbacher describes her descent into bulimia nervosa: I woke up one morning with a body th ...

Eating Disorders 443 Thepurging type includes vomiting or using diuretics, laxatives, or enemas. Thenonpurging type involves ...

444 CHAPTER 10 Often, people with bulimia don’t simply eat normally at meals and then binge between meals (Walsh, 1993). Rather, ...

Eating Disorders 445 Problems With the DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic Criteria Like that of anorexia, the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of bulimia h ...

446 CHAPTER 10 the eating disorder at the time she is diagnosed. Similarly, the types of each eating disorder—restricting and bi ...

Eating Disorders 447 DSM-IV-TR criteria for either of those other eating disorders (Fairburn, Palmer et al., in preparation; Tur ...

448 CHAPTER 10 problematic by nature, or is there, in fact, a faulty chemical pathway in your brain? If so, was it there before ...

Eating Disorders 449 if data from different groups (such as people with the restricting type of anorexia and people with the bin ...

450 CHAPTER 10 In addition, some researchers suggest that eating less actually reduces anxiety, in part, by reducing serotonin l ...

Eating Disorders 451 And once an eating disorder develops, the thoughts and behaviors associated with it can take on a life of t ...

452 CHAPTER 10 Operant Conditioning: Reinforcing Disordered Eating As with many disorders, operant conditioning plays a role in ...

Eating Disorders 453 P S N P S N self-criticism about mistakes (Antony & Swinson, 1998; Franco-Paredes et al., 2005). Numero ...

454 CHAPTER 10 to control food intake, weight, and shape fail, self-esteem falls even lower; these people feel they’ve failed, y ...

Eating Disorders 455 Other Psychological Disorders as Risk Factors Another factor associated with the subsequent development of ...

456 CHAPTER 10 P S N P S N Parents and siblings aren’t the only ones who can shape a person’s relationship to eating, food, and ...

Eating Disorders 457 P S N by the body mass index, or BMI, an adjusted ratio of weight to height), the average BMI of women age ...

458 CHAPTER 10 ideal, they found almost no one who felt they were “too big or fat.” After 3 years of watching television (primar ...