Binge Eating: Nature, Assessment, and Treatment - Softcover

Christopher G. Fairburn, DM, FRCPsych., is Wellcome Trust Senior Lecturer and Honorary Clinical Reader in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He is a well-known international authority on eating disorders with research programs in Britain and the United States. His main research interests are in the etiology of these disorders and in the development and evaluation of methods for treating them.

Contents
I. Introduction
1. Binge Eating: Definition and Classification, Fairburn and Wilson
2. A History of Binge Eating, Stunkard
II. Clinical Characteristics
3. Binge Eating in Bulimia Nervosa, Walsh
4. Binge Eating in Anorexia Nervosa, Garner
5. Binge Eating in Obesity, Marcus
6. Binge Eating and Addictive Disorders, Wilson
III. Epidemiology and Etiology
7. Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa: Distribution and Determinants, Fairburn, Hay, and Welch
8. Etiology of Binge Eating: A Developmental Perspective, Striegel-Moore
9. Etiology of Binge Eating: Psychological Mechanisms, Polivy and Herman
10. Binge Eating: Psychobiological Mechanisms, Blundell and Hill
IV. Evaluation and Treatment
11. Assessment of Binge Eating, Wilson
12. Pharmacological Treatments of Binge Eating, Mitchell and de Zwaan
13. Short-Term Psychological Treatments for Binge Eating, Agras
14. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Binge Eating, Tobin
V. Two Approaches to Assessment and Management
15. The Eating Disorder Examination (12th Edition), Fairburn and Cooper
16. Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Binge Eating and Bulimia Nervosa: A Comprehensive Treatment Manual, Fairburn, Marcus, and Wilson