Handbook of Eating Disorders
by: Janet Treasure (Editor), Ulrike Schmidt (Editor), Eric van Furth (Editor)
Topics include: adolescents with eating disorders, insulin purging, eating disordered men, polygenic animal models, adolescents with anorexia nervosa, refeeding oedema, early onset population, patients with anorexia nervosa, patients with bulimia nervosa, patients with eating disorders, reciprocal role patterns, women with bulimia nervosa, males with eating disorders, women with anorexia nervosa, athletes with eating disorders, bulimic psychopathology, adult anorexia nervosa, dual pathway model, adolescent anorexia nervosa, bulimic males, normal weight bulimia nervosa, group day treatment, eating disordered patients, insulin omission, eating psychopathology
Review
"this classic text has been rewritten, reorganised and expanded to provide a comprehensive overview of eating disorders" (Dietetics Today, April 2003)
"exceptional text that really brings the current literature to life a must have bench-book within any eating disorder service (European Eating Disorders Review, Vol 12 No 5 Sept-Oct 2004)
It has given me great pleasure to read this book the handbook is of great use both clinically and scientifically (European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry No.13 2004)
Book Info
Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. Text provides an overview of eating disorders, including obesity and binge eating. This edition includes chapters rewritten to include the advances in knowledge and understanding of eating disorders. Text embraces a more coherent, integrated approach, and now represents a European perspective. Includes references and index.
The publisher, John Wiley & Sons
Prominent contributors provide an up-to-date review of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, emphasizing the powerful ideas, hypotheses, and models which have dominated the field. Coverage includes a treatment model for hospital-based weight restoration, comparative therapy evaluations, empirical assessments of psychopathology (particularly body image), and the delineation of bulimia nervosa as an autonomous disorder. Topics reflect not only what is known today but also how progress can occur in the future.
Reviews:
In this second edition of the "Handbook of eating disorders" every chapter has been revised and rewritten with several new additional chapters in order to bring an up-to-date book on research and clinical experience in this field.
The editors Janet Treasure and Ulrike Schmidt are affiliated with Guys Hospital and Maudsley Hospital in London, while Eric van Furth is affiliated with the National Centre for Eating Disorders in the Netherlands. The 52 contributors are an all European group, except for five American researchers.
The book has 28 extensive chapters on the whole spectrum of eating disorders from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa to obesity. Each chapter has a logic structure with recent research and extensive references that will be useful for both the researcher and clinician. The chapter on children and adolescents is written by two professionals from the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London with useful information on diagnosis, assessment and management.
This book gives a current review of eating disorders that will be useful for every professional working in this field.
Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, ...