Massimo Cuzzolaro

Lorenzo Maria Donini

Emilia Manzato

This book provides up-to-date information on lesser known eating disorders (EDs) and eating related disorders. EDs and eating-related disorders include a highly heterogeneous group of syndromes and symptoms characterized by abnormal eating and weight control behaviors that can appear in all genders and ages. EDs can lead to high rates of morbidity and mortality, especially if they are misdiagnosed and untreated. The risk of underestimation is high for the lesser-known ED, and when unhealthy eating behaviors appear in unusual situations, such as some medical and psychiatric pathologies, adults and the elderly, sexual minorities etc. The volume examines EDs in specific populations (the elderly, males, infants and toddlers, sexual minorities, etc.). Several chapters explore in detail lesser-known EDs (anorexia athletica, avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, chewing and spitting, EDs by proxy, EDs after bariatric surgery, muscle dysmorphia, night-eating syndrome, nocturnal sleep-related eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, pica, rumination disorder, etc.). Finally, other chapters address features of unhealthy eating and weight control behaviors associated with medical diseases (achalasia, craniopharyngioma, cystic fibrosis, cyclic vomiting syndrome, diabetes, dysphagia, Kleine-Levin syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, Parkinson disease, Prader-Willi syndrome, Turner syndrome, etc.) The book will be a valuable resource for all health professionals who work in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, eating disorders, obesity, medicine, clinical nutrition, public health, and prevention, allowing them to broaden their understanding of these disorders, and to enhance their clinical ability to diagnose them.

Hidden and Lesser-known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions

Gabriella Ripa di Meana

Giuseppe Bertolucci

Dove vanno a finire i nostri sogni, le nostre amnesie, i nostri errori? Vengono minimizzati dalle urgenze tecniche dell’attualità, dal tempo concreto e pressante della produttività. Sono ammessi solo in quanto fenomeni involontari che per lo più disturbano e complicano, con la loro irragionevolezza, la vita corrente. Invece, proprio in quella logica che non pare una logica, in quell’invenzione di segni che ci spiazza ogni volta, in quegli enigmi che ci disorientano, si rivelano e si applicano le leggi generali dell’inconscio. Un atto mancato, un sogno, un errore sono occasioni che il soggetto, nel corso della sua esistenza, non dovrebbe dissipare. Sono occasioni eversive di conoscenza. Così l’analisi di un testo onirico, di un sintomo, di un lapsus o di un qualsiasi altro atto mancato può mostrare come il contatto con sé sia fondamentalmente un incontro con l’altro e con l’altro da sé.

Il sogno e l'errore

Luigi Frighi

Reazioni umane alle catastrofi

Secondo Fassino

This book equips readers with the knowledge required to improve diagnosis and treatment and to implement integrated prevention programs in patients with eating and weight disorders. It does so by providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of research findings and theoretical assumptions concerning the interface and interactions between body image and such disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, orthorexia nervosa, overweight, and obesity. After consideration of issues of definition and classification, the opening part of the book examines the concept of body image from a variety of viewpoints. A series of chapters are then devoted to the assessment of the multidimensional construct “body image”, to dysmorphophobia/body dysmorphic disorder, and to muscle dysmorphia. The third part discusses body image in people suffering from different eating disorders and/or overweight or obesity, and two final chapters focus on body image in the integrated prevention of eating disorders and obesity, and cultural differences regarding body image. The book will be of interest to all health professionals who work in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, eating disorders, obesity, body image, adolescence, public health, and prevention.

A Guide to Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention

Body Image, Eating, and Weight

Massimo Cuzzolaro

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