Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food
Subtitle: Independent or Addictive Disorders?
Publisher: Haworth Medical Press
Published: October 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780789025937
Subjects: Eating disorders & therapy; Psychological aspects; Food; Psychology; Medical; Psychopathology - Eating Disorders; Psychopathology - Addiction; Eating disorders; Psychiatry - General; Appetite disorders; Compulsive eating
First sentence: Obesity is increasingly being recognized as problem of major public health significance.
Description: "This book examines the relationship between eating disorders and substance abuse. In this text, you'll find direct evidence gathered by the nation's leading experts supporting the hypothesis that there are important similarities between the desire for food and the classic addictions. With overeating and obesity on the rise, this resource offers new hope for understanding eating disorders and will help psychiatrists and neuroscientists develop more effective treatments."--BOOK JACKET.