This book provides summaries of the research presentations and discussions of the conceptual and methodological issues involved in diagnosing and classifying eating disorders.
About the Author :
Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Stephen A. Wonderlich, Ph.D., is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and Director of Clinical Research at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, North Dakota.
B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., is Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; and Director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City.
James E. Mitchell, M.D., is Christoferson Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience; Chester Fritz Distinguished University Professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and President and Scientific Director of the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, North Dakota.
Review :
This is a very important work in light of the imminent publication of DSM 5. A great deal of time and effort has gone into improving the diagnostic categories of eating disorders to make them more reliable and specific, and the book conveys that. The data are interesting and relative to anyone working with patients with eating disorders. However, the book is not for the casual reader. The chapters can be highly technical and dense. It is not, nor was it meant to be, a treatment guide for eating disorders. If you want to see how eating disorder nosology and taxonomy is created and the likely changes to DSM 5 and beyond, this is the book for you.
