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Archive for the ‘Anorexia’ Category

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November 26th, 2006

No one could tell us exactly what to do

Had the diagnosis been, say, diabetes, we would have been given a list of guidelines and medications — a road map for recovery. We would have looked at research and treatment protocols. Look anorexia up on Amazon, and you’ll find hundreds of titles, but we couldn’t sort the useful books from the flaky ones. And […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 2 comments

September 2nd, 2006

Autism and Anorexia: Bad mothering is not the cause

…… schizophrenia and autism once were considered the result of bad mothering and …… those who accept “outdated” theories of anorexia are misguided — “believing somehow that mere exposure to unrealistic society ideals of thinness causes anorexia nervosa. Were this true, all young girls would develop anorexia.”
So wrote Cynthia M. Bulik, director of the […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

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