Handbook of Eating Disorders

Foreword * Obesity Effects of Obesity on Health and Happiness (George A. Bray) Physiological Aspects of Obesity (John S. Garrow) A Set-point Theory of Obesity (Richard E. Keesey) Fat Cells and Obesity (Per Bjorntorp) The Influence of Psychological Variables in Obesity (Ruth Striegel-Moore and Judith Rodin) Diets for Weight Reduction: Nutritional Considerations (Patricia Nicholas and Johanna Dwyer) Obesity: The Role of Physical Activity (Judith S. Stern and Patricia Lowney) Treatment of Childhood Obesity (Leonard H. Epstein) Behavior Therapy for Obesity: Modern Approaches and Better Results (Kelly D. Brownell and Thomas A. Wadden) The Very-Low-Calorie Diet: A Weight-Reduction Technique (George L. Blackburn, Margaret E. Lynch, and Stacie L. Wong) The Control of Obesity: Social and Community Perspectives (Albert J. Stunkard) * Anorexia Nervosa Anorexia Nervosa: History and Psychological Concepts (Michael Strober) Anorexia Nervosa: Medical and Physiological Aspects (James E. Mitchell) Anorexia Nervosa: Diagnostic Conceptualizations (Paul E. Garfinkel and Allan S. Kaplan) Outcome and Prognosis of Anorexia Nervosa (George I. Szmukler and Gerald F.M. Russell) Cognitive Therapy for Anorexia Nervosa (David M. Garner) Anorexia Nervosa: The Therapeutic Task (Hilde Bruch) Inpatient and Outpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa (Arnold E. Andersen) * Bulimia Bulimarexia: A Historical-Sociocultural Perspective (Marlen Boskind-White and William C. White Jr.) Bulimia: Theories of Etiology (W. Stewart Agras and Betty G. Kirkley) Bulimia: Medical and Physiological Aspects (James E. Mitchell) The Clinical Features and Maintenance of Bulimia Nervosa (Christopher G. Gairburn, Zafra Cooper, and Peter J. Cooper) Assessment of Bulimia: A Multidimensional Model (Craig Johnson and Darryl L. Pure) Cognitive-Behavioral and Pharmacological Therapies for Bulimia (G. Terence Wilson) Intensive Treatment of Bulimia and Body-Image Disturbance (Susan C. Wooley and Ann Kearney-Cooke) Epilogue (Kelly D. Brownell and John P. Foreyt)