The lack of balance and the failure of regulation in life has traditionally been recognized in such extreme symbolic acts as overconscientiousness or a criminal lack of conscience. This volume shows how the neurotic process affects biologic functions, distorting natural functioning. Three distinct functions and their respective extremes are discussed: eating (obesity, bulimia nervosa), sleeping (insomnia, excessive somnolence), and sex (hypersexuality including child molestation, hyposexuality including inhibited sexual desires).
The lack of balance and the failure of regulation in life has traditionally been recognized in such extreme symbolic acts as overconscientiousness or ...
This thoroughly revised second edition provides physicians and other health care professionals with a concise, practical, state-of-the-art reference on obesity, eating disorders, and their management. Sharing their personal experiences in providing treatment, the experts writing here comprehensively examine obesity and eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating. They review the history, diagnosis, prevalence, psychiatric comorbidity, and medical complications of each of these diseases, along with the scientific evidence for various pharmacologic therapies....
This thoroughly revised second edition provides physicians and other health care professionals with a concise, practical, state-of-the-art reference o...
