Body Image, Eating, and Weight (eBook, PDF)

A Guide to Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention
Redaktion: Cuzzolaro, Massimo; Fassino, Secondo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Equips readers to improve diagnosis and treatment in patients with eating and weight disorders

Explains how body image plays a critical role in the development, maintenance, and outcome of these disorders

Describes integrated prevention programs

Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date review of relevant research findings

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 439
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319908175
• Artikelnr.: 54527262

Autorenporträt

Massimo Cuzzolaro is a renowned psychiatrist and former researcher with longstanding service as professor of psychiatry at the University of Rome Sapienza, Italy, where he was chief of an eating disorders unit from 1981 to 2008 and a consultant psychiatrist in a bariatric surgery unit from 1995 to 2008.Massimo Cuzzolaro is a past president of the Italian Society for the Study of Eating Disorders. He has been a member of various international and national scientific societies and has been an editorial board member of several scientific journals. Since 1996 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia, and Obesity. His research interests have included clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy, eating disorders, obesity, and body image disorders. Massimo Cuzzolaro is the author or co-author of more than 300 scientific articles and book chapters and of ten books. Secondo Fassino is Full Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Turin, where he has been Director of the Regional Expert Centre (Centro Esperto Regionale) for Eating Disorders since 2002. His research interests include clinical psychiatry, psychotherapy, and clinical psychopharmacology, with a closer focus in more recent years on consultation-liaison psychiatry, personality disorders, and eating disorders. Professor Fassino is Section Editor of BMC Psychiatry. He is a member of the editorial boards of  Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences,  Eating and Weight Disorders, Rivista di Psicologia Individuale, and other journals. Since 2012 he has been President of the Italian Society of Medical Psychotherapy and in 2013 was appointed Director of the School of Specialization at the University of Turin. Professor Fassino has authored more than 350 publications, including research articles,reviews, and books.  Much of his research has been published in leading journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Body schema and body image: a brief history of the concepts.- Neuroscience and body image.- Psychoanalysis and body image.- Family functioning and body image.- Cognitive-behavioral learning theories and body image.- Feminist perspectives on body image. - Body image: gender, age, and ethnic differences.- Body image: methods of assessment in children, adolescents and adults.- Body Uneasiness Test.- Diagnostic classification of body image disturbances.- Body dysmorphic disorder.- Body image and muscle dysmorphia in male.- Dysmorphophobia by Enrico Morselli: selected passages and comment.- Diagnostic classification of eating disorders.- Body image and anorexia nervosa.- Body image and bulimia nervosa.- Body image and binge eating disorder.- Body image and other eating disorders.- Body image and orthorexia nervosa.- Diagnostic classification of overweight and obesities.- Body image and overweight/obesity in children.- Body image and overweight/obesity in adults.- Non-surgical weight loss and body image in children, adolescents and adults.- Body image before and after bariatric surgery in adolescents and adults.- Gender dysphoria, body image, eating, and weight.- Sexual orientation, body image, eating, and weight .- Sexual abuse, body image, eating, and weight.- Body image and integrated prevention of eating and weight disorders.