TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Chapter 26. Eating Disorders
A1  - Gwirtsman, Harry E.
A1  - Mitchell, James E.
A1  - Ebert, Michael H.
A2  - Ebert, Michael H.
A2  - Loosen, Peter T.
A2  - Nurcombe, Barry
A2  - Leckman, James F.
PY  - 2008
T2  - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Psychiatry, 2e
AB  - The  eating  disorders,  anorexia  nervosa  and  bulimia  nervosa,  may  be  classified  as  true  psychosomatic  illnesses,  inasmuch  as  an  underlying  biological  vulnerability  interacts  with  a  particular  cultural  stress  in  order  to  produce  behavioral  and  psychological  symptoms.  For  example,  anorexia  and  bulimia  nervosa  are  more  prevalent  in  industrialized  societies,  where  there  is  an  overabundance  of  food  and  where  attractiveness  in  women  is  linked  with  being  thin,  than  in  agriculturally-based  societies.  Immigrants  from  cultures  in  which  anorexia  nervosa  is  rare  are  more  likely  to  develop  the  illness  as  they  assimilate  the  ideals  of  a  thin  body  appearance.  
SN  - 
PB  - The McGraw-Hill Companies
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/20
UR  - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=3288493
ER  -