PSYC 3390 Chapter 9: Chapter 9.doc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson- Hennig

Document Summary

Suffered from nervous consumption that caused wasting of body tissue: females to be diagnosed must have had one menstrual cycle, and their cycles must stop to meet diagnostic criterion. Binge or purge or both b/c relentless restriction of all food is not possible for all anorexics, some make use of a binge purge strategy. Binge: out of control eating of amounts of food greater than normal ppl. Purge: remove the food from their body somehow vomit, laxatives, diuretics, enemas: 30-50 % transition from restrictive a/n to binge/purge @ some point in their disorder. Ballet dancers @ high risk b/c emphasis on slender physique. Laxatives however do not actually produce weight loss, b/c food digested and absorbed, just fluid lost. Death usually result of physiological consequences of starvation or more intentional suicidal behaviour. Contrast bulimia b/c death as direct cause of eating disorder is rare: bulimia nervosa.