The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior

Eating Disorders 225 Bulimia Nervosa The term bulimia nervosawas first used by Russell in 1979 to describe a variant of anorexia ...

226 Eating Disorders It is clear from this that the definition of bulimia nervosa is more ambigu- ous than that for anorexia and ...

Eating Disorders 227 The change in incidence and prevalence since its description Bulimia nervosa was first described in 1979. T ...

228 Eating Disorders in 1986 in the UK and reported figures of 1.9 percent and 1.8 percent, indi- cating no change (Cooper and F ...

Eating Disorders 229 slightly older than anorexics, with the peak of onset being between 15 and 19 years (Lucas and Soundy, 1993 ...

230 Eating Disorders food intake (Abraham and Beumont, 1982). The consequences of a binge are described by Shute (1992): “my sto ...

Eating Disorders 231 remaining 20 percent show great variability in their symptoms. Bulimia nervosa has a range of physical and ...

232 Eating Disorders constipation, diarrhea, and pancreatitis; may have sore throats; and often have dental caries and abscesses ...

Eating Disorders 233 borderline personality disorder (D.B. Herzog et al., 1992), conduct disorder, and stealing (Rowston and Lac ...

234 Eating Disorders of eating disorders is the most productive (Szmukler, Dare, and Treasure, 1995), although what such a model ...

Eating Disorders 235 anorexia (9 out of 16) whereas only 7 percent of nonidentical twins were (1 out of 14) (Holland et al., 198 ...

236 Eating Disorders these neurotransmitters). Third, subjective reports from people with AN, both during and after their illnes ...

Eating Disorders 237 shaping the person, “so that when that person meets the possibility of being anorexic she clasps it to her ...

238 Eating Disorders needs may not be able to identify and understand their own internal states. Other research has argued that ...

Eating Disorders 239 and extinction. They then add the components central to cognitive theory such as beliefs, images, ideas, an ...

240 Eating Disorders Researchers and clinicians such as Garner and Bemis (1982), Fairburn, Cooper, and Cooper (1986), and Bruch ...

Eating Disorders 241 through reinforcement and association, and established and perpetuated by cognitive dysfunctions. Bulimia n ...

242 Eating Disorders was at high school she was “on everything; thyroid pills, diet pills, laxatives.” Mazel developed an obsess ...

Eating Disorders 243 Many women show poor self-esteem, engage in dieting, and value thinness. Many women also show dysfunctiona ...

244 Eating Disorders Boundaries A family systems approach also emphasizes the importance of boundaries between individuals withi ...