Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships

Download or read book Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships written by Jan Norre and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-19 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 describe both the theoretical and practical implications of their work, making this book important reading for both practitioner and researcher.