Look at the social context and cultural forces the shape the respondent's everyday world experience, and that gives meaning to interpersonal relationships and life events. Note that some somatic symptoms are universal - insomnia and early morning awakening. Discuss the importance of a model that accounts for the cultural construction of illness experience. Consider the role that cognition plays in shaping affect. Cultural analysis takes the view that affects, though privately experienced, are fundamentally social in nature and therefore in significant part organized within the public domain.
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Gaining control of food intake and weight often requires hospitalization. Individual, group, family treatment can be useful. Treat co-morbidity, usually depression. Binge eating is the central feature. Preoccupation with body image.