Developing an Evidence-based Classification of Eating Disorders: Scientific Findings for Dsm-5 - Softcover

Ruth H. Striegel-moore; Stephen A. Wonderlich; B. Timothy Walsh; James E. Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089042666X ISBN 13: 9780890426661

Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2011

Synopsis

The development, organization, and imminent release of DSM-5 have been the occasion of much research, analysis, synthesis, and publishing across the psychiatric classifications, including eating disorders. Over the last 5 years, eating disorder investigators from around the world have come together in a series of workshops and meetings to tackle complex and critical issues related to diagnosis, including the category of eating disorders not otherwise specified, the definition of binge eating, the latent structure of eating disorder diagnoses, eating and feeding disorders in children, the impact of culture on eating disorder classification, and the diagnostic utility and validity of the binge eating disorder, purging disorder, and night eating syndrome. Developing an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders: Scientific Findings for DSM-5 is the product of those discussions, which have had a profound impact on the ultimate recommendations for the DSM-5 eating disorders. Rigorous in its scholarship and fascinating in its findings, this book is an indispensible guide to the latest research in the field, as well as an informative preview of DSM-5.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth H. Striegel-Moore, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Walter A. Crowell University Professor of the Social Sciences at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Stephen A. Wonderlich, Ph.D., is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor and Associate Chairman of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and Director of Clinical Research at the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, North Dakota. B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., is Ruane Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology in Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University; and Director of the Division of Clinical Therapeutics at the New York State Psychiatric Institute in New York City. James E. Mitchell, M.D., is Christoferson Professor and Chair of the Department of Clinical Neuroscience; Chester Fritz Distinguished University Professor at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences; and President and Scientific Director of the Neuropsychiatric Research Institute in Fargo, North Dakota.

Review:

"This is a very important work in light of the imminent publication of DSM 5. A great deal of time and effort has gone into improving the diagnostic categories of eating disorders to make them more reliable and specific, and the book conveys that. The data are interesting and relative to anyone working with patients with eating disorders. However, the book is not for the casual reader. The chapters can be highly technical and dense. It is not, nor was it meant to be, a treatment guide for eating disorders. If you want to see how eating disorder nosology and taxonomy is created and the likely changes to DSM 5 and beyond, this is the book for you."-- "Brett C. Plyler, M.D., DOODY'S PUBLISHERS' CLUB", "June 2011"

About this edition

• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 089042666X
• ISBN 13: 9780890426661
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 429