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- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chemical and Behavioral Addictions
- Chapter 2 Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents
- Chapter 3 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics
- Chapter 4 Recent Developments in Cultural Psychiatry
- Chapter 5 New Perspectives in Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Emergency Psychiatry
- Chapter 7 How Can Forensic Psychiatry Contribute to Legal and Ethical Controversies in Society?
- Chapter 8 Diagnosis of Co-occurrent Mental Health Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disability, Major Communication and Insight Difficulties, and Stressor-Related Disorders
- Chapter 9 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults
- Chapter 10 Translational Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Challenges in the Therapy of Psychiatric Disorders in the Elderly
- Chapter 12 Position-Taking
- Chapter 13 Physical Health of Patients with Schizophrenia
- Chapter 14 Evolving Concepts for the Assessment and Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Chapter 15 The Role of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants in Suicidal Crisis Management
- Chapter 16 Telemental Health Care
- Chapter 17 Development and Current Status of ICD-11 Mental, Behavioral, or Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Chapter 18 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 19 Did We Lose Interest and Pleasure in the Concept of Major Depression?
- Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
- Index
- References
Chapter 5 - New Perspectives in Eating Disorders
Updates in Diagnosis, Risk Factors, Psychopathology, and Social Aspects
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2024
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Mental Health Research and Practice
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Chemical and Behavioral Addictions
- Chapter 2 Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Adolescents
- Chapter 3 Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and Psychosomatics
- Chapter 4 Recent Developments in Cultural Psychiatry
- Chapter 5 New Perspectives in Eating Disorders
- Chapter 6 Emergency Psychiatry
- Chapter 7 How Can Forensic Psychiatry Contribute to Legal and Ethical Controversies in Society?
- Chapter 8 Diagnosis of Co-occurrent Mental Health Problems in Persons with Intellectual Disability, Major Communication and Insight Difficulties, and Stressor-Related Disorders
- Chapter 9 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Adults
- Chapter 10 Translational Neuroimaging in Psychiatry
- Chapter 11 Challenges in the Therapy of Psychiatric Disorders in the Elderly
- Chapter 12 Position-Taking
- Chapter 13 Physical Health of Patients with Schizophrenia
- Chapter 14 Evolving Concepts for the Assessment and Treatment of Schizophrenia
- Chapter 15 The Role of Rapid-Acting Antidepressants in Suicidal Crisis Management
- Chapter 16 Telemental Health Care
- Chapter 17 Development and Current Status of ICD-11 Mental, Behavioral, or Neurodevelopmental Disorders
- Chapter 18 Anxiety Disorders
- Chapter 19 Did We Lose Interest and Pleasure in the Concept of Major Depression?
- Chapter 20 Personality Disorders
- Index
- References
Summary
Eating disorders (ED) are complex psychiatric disorders associated with high morbidity and mortality. Medical complications are relatively frequent and may involve all organs and systems, and although most remit when a regular food intake and/or a normal body weight are resumed, others are severe enough to cause the death of the individual. Despite this relevance for public health, there is no conclusive knowledge about their etiopathogenesis. Current diagnostic criteria are unable to address all clinical presentations of these syndromes, since they are focused on eating-related psychopathology and miss the presence of general psychopathological symptoms, which have been shown to have a central role in the disorders. Moreover, although social processes and connection with others have been recognized to be a cornerstone of clinical recovery, they are rarely considered in the therapeutic planning. This chapter reviews the recent literature on emerging issues related to the etiopathogenetic risk factors, focusing especially on reward processes. Psychopathology and diagnostic problems are addressed through the illustration of new methodological approaches such as the network analysis and the staging model. Finally, we consider the impact of an ED on interpersonal functioning of close others, parents, partners, and siblings of the individual with an ED.
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- Mental Health Research and PracticeFrom Evidence to Experience, pp. 68 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024