Eating Disorders

Richard A. Gordon is Professor of Psychology at Bard College and is a practising clinical psychologist. He has published and lectured extensively on the subject of eating disorders and has treated anorexic and bulimic patients in clinical practice for the past 20 years.

• Acknowledgements. Preface.1. Culture and Psychopathology: The Notion of an Ethnic Disorder.2. Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa.3. Dimensions of an Epidemic: The Epidemiology of Eating Disorders.4. A Conflicted Female Identity.5. The Thin Body Ideal.6. The War Against Fat: Obesity, Dieting, and Exercise.7. The Templates of a Disease.8. The Cultural Politics of Eating Disorders.Index.

"He (Gordon) has successfully produced a very useful volume, which can be recommended as a primer which is readable, informative and well referenced...interesting and persuasive...coverage of the field is broad and most approaches are represented. A good read." Paul Robinson, European Eating Disorders Review, 2000, Vol 9, No 1.