Eating Disorders: Clinical Perspectives

The mental disorders characterized by the habit of abnormal eating which negatively affect a person's mental or physical health are known as eating disorders. Some of their common types include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, pica and rumination syndrome. Anorexia nervosa is a type of disorder associated with one's act of putting a limit over one's dietary habits, due to the fear of gaining weight and a strong desire to be thin. The type of eating disorder involving binge-eating episodes followed by purging is called bulimia nervosa. Binge eating disorder refers to the eating disorder associated with binge eating episodes that are associated with psychological and social problems. This book presents the complex aspects of eating disorders in the most comprehensible and easy to understand language. It discusses the fundamental as well as modern clinical perspectives of such disorders. This book is meant for students who are looking for an elaborate reference text on eating disorders.