Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-328) and index.

Provides information and guidance for sufferers of eating disorders or exercise addiction; people close to them; or treatment professionals, discussing the underlying causes of these disorders, treatment options, expectations in individual, group, and family therapy, and what to do if outpatient treatment is not enough.

From diet to disorder : problems and prognosis -- Young, white, and female : myth or reality? -- Activity disorder : when a good thing goes bad -- Genes or jeans : what causes eating disorders? -- Eating disorder behaviors as adaptive functions -- To thoes who love them : guidlines for family and significant others -- Assessing the situation -- Treatment philosophy and approaches -- Individual therapy : putting the eating disorder out of a job -- Sharing the pain and the promise in group -- Family therapy : working with families and significant others -- Enough about your mother, what did you have to eat today? -- Medical assessment and management-- The psychiatrist's role and psychotropic medication -- When outpatient treatment is not enough -- Alternative approaches to eating disorders -- Increasing awareness and prevention.

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