The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered Behavior

Eating Disorders 245 In line with this, a child may develop anorexia within a family which has blurred boundaries and which show ...

246 Eating Disorders cannot understand the proliferation of these conditions in the contemporary era without an analysis of the ...

Eating Disorders 247 multiplicity of role demands, many of which seem to conflict with one another, which makes the contemporary ...

248 Eating Disorders and sameness in time. In line with this analysis, Gordon (2000) argued that the “process of identity format ...

Eating Disorders 249 In summary, from a sociocultural perspective eating disorders are seen as an expression of a series of conf ...

250 Eating Disorders sanctioned by the social meanings attached to size and food. As Gordon (2000) stated, becoming thin and foo ...

Eating Disorders 251 Childhood sexual abuse Many patients with eating disorders disclose sexual abuse during the treatment proce ...

252 Eating Disorders explored the prevalence of death or family breakup in the families of eat- ing disordered patients compared ...

Eating Disorders 253 not result in any observable changes. Bulimia is also associated with a range of psychological and physical ...

11 Treating Eating Disorders The previous chapter described the etiology of anorexia and bulimia in terms of six different theor ...

Treating Eating Disorders 255 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy The two core themes of a psychoanalytic model of eating disorders wer ...

256 Treating Eating Disorders of object relations generates a fear of becoming close to others. Sufferers of eating disorders ar ...

Treating Eating Disorders 257 her relationships outside the therapy room” (Dare and Crowther, 1995a, p. 298). This is described ...

258 Treating Eating Disorders such as the Women’s Therapy Centers in the UK (see Orbach, 1978, 1986; Lawrence, 1984, 1987). To d ...

Treating Eating Disorders 259 removed. If the therapy is being offered as part of a hospital-based trial, then the therapist wil ...

260 Treating Eating Disorders reflected in the patient’s behavior, and the second is the formation of dysfunctional cognitions a ...

Treating Eating Disorders 261 Breaking the cycle: A discussion will be held concerning the cycle of dieting and bingeing, the p ...

262 Treating Eating Disorders Stage 5: Follow-up The CBT described by Freeman (1995) involves 18 sessions of therapy with top-up ...

Treating Eating Disorders 263 had fewer relapses, had fewer readmissions, showed a more stable weight pattern, and reported bett ...

264 Treating Eating Disorders behavior change will also promote a shift in cognitions. It has been shown to be particularly effe ...