Ednos: Eating Disorders Not Otherwise Specified: Scientific and Clinical Perspectives on the Other Eating Disorders

ISBN-13: 9781583911631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str.

Claes Norring; Bob Palmer

Opis

This comprehensive summary of the subject of EDNOS demonstrates that by investigating the nature, cause and treatment of these disorders, we can throw light on the classification and nature of eating disorders as a whole.

Spis treści

Introduction. History of the Classification of Eating Disorders. The Empirical Status of Atypical Eating Disorders and the Present EDNOS Diagnosis. The Empirical Status of Binge Eating Disorder. Binge-Eating, EDNOS and Obesity. Patterns of Change in Eating Disorders: A Process View on Eating Disorders Symptomatology. Clarifying the Nature of EDNOS: Cluster Analysis, Diagnosis and Comorbidity. The Biology of EDNOS. Chapter How Family and Twin Studies Inform the Developing Nosolgy of Eating Disorders. hapter 10: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa Without Fat Phobia. Chapter 11: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on EDNOS. Chapter 12: Eating Disorders in Children. Chapter 13: Atypical Eating Disorders in Female Athletes. Chapter 14: Eating Disorders and Type 1 Diabetes. Chapter 15: EDNOS: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective. Chapter 16: Psychological Perspectives on Atypical Diagnoses in the Eating Disorders. Appendix: Current Diagnostic Criteria for the Eating Disorders.

O autorze

Claes Norring is the director of the National Resource Centre of Eating Disorders in Sweden and Associate Professor of psychology at Örebro University.

Bob Palmer is Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Leicester and Hon. Consultant Psychiatrist at the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust.