Book contents
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview
- Part II Brain without Body, Body without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders
- Part III The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship with Food
- 6 Contemporary Social Trends Regarding Food: Paradoxes and Food Tribes
- 7 A New Disorder: Orthorexia
- 8 Contemporary Perspectives on Anorexia
- 9 Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder
- 10 Contemporary Perspectives on Obesity
- Part IV Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations
- References
- Index
9 - Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder
A Contemporary Overview
from Part III - The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship with Food
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Body Image and Eating Disorders
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview
- Part II Brain without Body, Body without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders
- Part III The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship with Food
- 6 Contemporary Social Trends Regarding Food: Paradoxes and Food Tribes
- 7 A New Disorder: Orthorexia
- 8 Contemporary Perspectives on Anorexia
- 9 Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder
- 10 Contemporary Perspectives on Obesity
- Part IV Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations
- References
- Index
Summary
It has been found that internalizing a lean body ideal increases the risk of developing bulimia nervosa. Nervous bulimia was also ranked twelfth out of 306 mental and physical disorders causing disability in females aged 15–19 years in high-income group countries. Theories and scientific studies about bulimia’s clinical features and its origins are presented. The specific differences between the symptoms of nervous bulimia and binge eating are outlined and the way in which these disorders relate to body image is also discussed. Differences in the course of these diseases and possible treatment are examined and clinical features, theories, and scientific studies about these topics presented.
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- Body Image and Eating DisordersAn Anthropological and Psychological Overview, pp. 107 - 111Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022