PSY 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anorexia Nervosa, Gastrointestinal Perforation, Cardiac Arrhythmia
14 Dec 2015
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Characteristics driven: dsm-iv, ability to subsist on very little food for long periods of time; Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, despite being underweight. Distortions in perception of one"s body weight or shape. Undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight. In females who have reached menarche, presence of amenorrhea. Types: restricting type purging behaviour, binge/purge type. Eat very small amounts of food; no binge-eating or. Periodic episodes of bingeing followed by purging. More likely to engage in other harmful behaviours. Like the restricting type in all other respects. Critique of dsm iv: the weight criterion. Some people have low body mass and can be misdiagnosed: the weight phobia criterion, the amenorrhea criterion. Use of bc pills can disrupt periods: problems and proposed alternative.
