Main description:

This book equips readers with the knowledge required to improve diagnosis and treatment and to implement integrated prevention programs in patients with eating and weight disorders. It does so by providing a comprehensive, up-to-date review of research findings and theoretical assumptions concerning the interface and interactions between body image and such disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, other specified feeding and eating disorders, orthorexia nervosa, overweight, and obesity. After consideration of issues of definition and classification, the opening part of the book examines the concept of body image from a variety of viewpoints. A series of chapters are then devoted to the assessment of the multidimensional construct "body image", to dysmorphophobia/body dysmorphic disorder, and to muscle dysmorphia. The third part discusses body image in people suffering from different eating disorders and/or overweight or obesity, and two final chapters focus on body image in the integrated prevention of eating disorders and obesity, and cultural differences regarding body image. The book will be of interest to all health professionals who work in the fields of psychiatry, clinical psychology, eating disorders, obesity, body image, adolescence, public health, and prevention.

Contents:

Body schema and body image: a brief history of the concepts (Massimo Cuzzolaro).- Neuroscience and body image (Walt H Kaye; Ursula F Bailer; Denise Soria Bauser).- Psychoanalysis and body image (Secondo Fassino).- Family functioning and body image (Secondo Fassino and Federico Amianto).- Cognitive-behavioral learning theories and body image (Paolo Santonastaso)- Feminist perspectives on body image (Jessica Ringrose; Hanna Retallack; Sarah K Murnen) - Body image: gender, age, and ethnic differences (Lisa Fellin).- Body image: methods of assessment in children, adolescents and adults (Giovanni Abbate Daga and Enrica Marzola).- Body Uneasiness Test (Massimo Cuzzolaro and Gianfranco Marano).- Diagnostic classification of body image disturbances (Secondo Fassino and Enrica Marzola).- Body dysmorphic disorder (Massimo Cuzzolaro).- Body image and muscle dysmorphia in male (Stuart B Murray; Stephen W Touyz).- Dysmorphophobia by Enrico Morselli: selected passages and comment (Massimo Cuzzolaro and Umberto Nizzoli).- Diagnostic classification of eating disorders (Palmiero Monteleone).- Body image and anorexia nervosa (Giovanni Abbate Daga).- Body image and bulimia nervosa (Angela Favaro).- Body image and binge eating disorder (Federico Amianto and Secondo Fassino).- Body image and other eating disorders (Manfred Fichter; Emma Forsen Mantilla; Claudia Ferreira).- Body image and orthorexia nervosa (Lorenzo Donini).- Diagnostic classification of overweight and obesities (Ottavio Bosello).- Body image and overweight/obesity in children (Caterina Lombardo; Mathieu Roy).- Body image and overweight/obesity in adults (Silja Vocks: Anna Pokrajak-Boulian).- Non-surgical weight loss and body image in children, adolescents and adults (Federico Amianto).- Body image before and after bariatric surgery in adolescents and adults (Dewi Guardia; Luca Busetto).- Gender dysphoria, body image, eating, and weight (Matteo Balestrieri; Allegra Gordon).- Sexual orientation, body image, eating, and weight (Paolo Cotrufo; Keith J Zullig; Alejandro Magallares).- Sexual abuse, body image, eating, and weight (Valdo Ricca).- Body image and integrated prevention of eating and weight disorders (Eric Stice)