Eating disorders and marital relationships

Anorexia and bulimia are on the increase in the Western world and the disease is now recognised to no longer be only a problem for teenage girls, but older women as well. Most older women either do now or did previously live with a partner and much attention has been paid to these relationships in d...

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Main Author: Van den Broucke, Stephan (-)
Other Authors: Vandereycken, Walter, 1949-, Norre, Jan
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge c1997.
Edition:1st ed
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Summary:Anorexia and bulimia are on the increase in the Western world and the disease is now recognised to no longer be only a problem for teenage girls, but older women as well. Most older women either do now or did previously live with a partner and much attention has been paid to these relationships in devising therapeutic regimes.Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships takes a critical look at the evidence behind the assumption of psychiatric illness in the patients and their partners and comes up with some surprising results. Van den Broucke, Vandereycken and Norre carefully descr
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (219 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-192) and indexes.
ISBN:9781134752119
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9781134752126
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