Bulimia | Bulimia Is on the Rise Among Nonwhite Populations
Kathryn J. Zerbe, a psychoanalyst, was director of the Adult Outpatient Department of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, while serving as medical director of the Women’s Program, and staff analyst at the same institution at the time of this writing. For five years she managed the Eating Disorder Unit at the clinic. She was also on the faculty of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry until 1997.
Summary: Bulimia has been found recently to be on the rise among nonwhite groups such as African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians— a development that...
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Table of Contents
- Bulimia Nervosa: An Overview
- Testimony of a Recovered Female Bulimic
- Bulimia in Older Women
- Men Are Becoming More Vulnerable to Bulimia
- Adolescence: Setting the Stage for Eating Disorders
- Bulimia May Be Linked to Sexual Abuse
- Bingeing and Dieting as Methods of Coping with Pain
- Bulimia Is on the Rise Among Nonwhite Populations
- Current Approaches to Treating Bulimia
- The Role of Parents in a Child’s Recovery
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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