Anorexia nervosa and bulimia : how to help / Marilyn Duker and Roger Slade.
Material type: TextPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780335212033 (pbk.) :
- 9780335212040 (hbk.) :
- 0335212042
- 616.852606 DUK
- RC552.A5 D85 2003
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Previous ed.: 1988.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. -- One.Beginning to unravel the problem -- 2.A path through the theories -- 3.Control by any other name -- 4.Bad medicine -- Part II. 5.The picture at low weight and foundations for help -- 6.Viable weight and the picture that is hidden -- 7.The culture of control -- 8.On becoming a person: through food control -- Part III.9.Perspectives that maintain the ability to help -- 10.Getting through -- 11.Good medicine -- 12.Turning around -- 13.Transitiion -- 14.Moving towards a real sense of self.
Updated to meet contemporary concerns, this second edition is aimed at those who want to do something practical about anorexia nervosa/bulimia. Its contribution is the widely acknowledged whirlpool theory which unifies the physiological and psychological aspects of the illness.