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Anorexia nervosa and bulimia : how to help / Marilyn Duker and Roger Slade.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Buckingham : Open University Press, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xii, 274 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780335212033 (pbk.) :
  • 9780335212040 (hbk.) :
  • 0335212042
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.852606 DUK
LOC classification:
  • RC552.A5 D85 2003
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 616.852606 DUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 127034
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 616.852606 DUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 127035
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending 616.852606 DUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 124690

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.

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