Eating Disorders

This Handbook covers all eating disorders in every part of the world. Eating disorders in Western countries are described but also in different parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, amongst indigenous peoples, and peoples of cultural and linguistic diversity, Latin America and Eastern Europe and we will describe the impact of pandemics.

The sections are organised with an introduction followed by definitions and classifications, then epidemiology, then psychosocial aetiology, clinical features, neurobiology, family peers and carers, and finally conclusions. The latest DSM and ICD classifications are covered and eating disorders not yet classified. The authors cover the clinical features of eating disorders complicating diabetes type 1, the neurobiology of eating disorders including immunology, neurotransmitters and appetite. The treatment section will include emergency treatment, evidence-based psychological approaches, intensive interventions and emerging areas, and the family section will include voluntary bodies, family and carers and pregnant mothers with eating disorders. Outcome covers prognosis in all the major eating disorders and describe the severe and enduring type of eating disorder.

The work is the primary source of information about eating disorders for students, doctors, psychologists and other professionals. The fact that it is regularly updated makes it second only to primary sources such as journals for retrieving information on the subject. In contrast to journals the manual will provide accessibility unavailable elsewhere.

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Dr Robinson is Professor at University College London. He is also Consultant in Eating Disorders Psychiatry at The Orri-London clinic and Hon Teaching Fellow in Gastroenterology at University College London Hospital. He worked in eating disorders in the NHS for nearly 40 years. He has co-written or co-edited books on Community Treatment of Eating Disorders (2006), Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (2009), Critical Care for Anorexia Nervosa (MARSIPAN) (2015) and Mentalization Based Therapy for Eating Disorders (MBT-ED) (2019). He is the principal author of the MARSIPAN guidance, now MEED guidance. In 2012 he launched an MSc degree course based in the UCL Division of Medicine in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition, the only one of its kind.

 

Professor Tracey Wade

Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade completed a Master of Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University (1992), and a PhD at Flinders University (1998). Since 2000 she has worked in the School of Psychology at Flinders University. She is currently a Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Eating Disorders. In 2015 she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, in 2016 she was made an Inaugural Honorary Fellow of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Eating Disorders Distinguished Achievement Award and appointed a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society. In 2023 she was awarded the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy Distinguished Career Award. She is the director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders and conducts research across a range of clinical settings and schools, with almost 300 peer-reviewed publications. Her research is currently supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant.

 

Professor Beate Herpertz -Dahlmann

Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann has specialized in paediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry. Her Master thesis covered the association between eating disorders and depression.  Since 1997 she has been Chair and Clinical Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the Technical Excellence University of Aachen, Germany including a specialized eating disorder unit. For more than 30 years her research field has been the aetiology and treatment of adolescent and childhood AN. She is currently coordinating the third edition of the German guidelines for eating disorders and established the new treatment strategies “day patient treatment” and “home treatment” for children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa in Germany. Another research field is biological research in eating disorders, e.g. neuroimaging and the investigation of the gut-brain-axis. She has edited and written many international and German books and articles in the field. She is a member of the eating disorder research group of the European Brain Council. Previously she has been President of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Board member of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and of the German Society of Eating Disorders as well as a member of the expert council “Neurosciences” of the German Research Society (DFG). For many years she has been chief editor of the German Journal for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is currently editor in chief of the Journal “European Eating Disorders Review” (EEDR).

 

 

Professor Fernando Fernandez-Aranda

Born in 1963 in Seville and since 2003 Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Specialist in Clinical Psychology, has been the Director of the Eating Disorders (ED) Unit at the Dept. of Clinical Psychology (University Hospital Bellvitge-HUB) in Barcelona (Spain), Director of the Long-standing ED Unit (Sagrat Cor Hospital-HUB) in Martorell, Full Professor (School of Medicine, UB), at the University of Barcelona and past Scientific Director of the Biomedical Research Center of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL). He is also Head of Group CIBERobn (Excellent Spanish Research Network for Obesity and Nutrition) since 2007. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 1996 at the University of Hamburg (Germany), his BP in 1990 (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Barcelona. His previous appointments were as a Clinical Psychologist at the Psychiatric University Hospital of Hamburg (1994-1995), long-term predoctoral Research Fellowship in Hannover, Germany (1992-1993) and Consultant Psychologist at the Department of Psychiatry, HUB in Barcelona (1996-03). He gave more than 550 invited lectures in International or National professional Psychology, Psychiatry, Nutrition/Endocrinology Conferences and is actively involved as recognized Supervisor in Continuous Teaching in ED, and relevant member of several international professionals associations (AED, ED Research Society, ISSBA). Fellow of the AED, Past Editor in Chief of European Eating Disorders Review (since 2011-21) and awarded with the Meehan Hartley Award for Public Service and/or Advocacy-2004, Leadership Research Award-2015, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2017 (University of Tübingen, Germany). He received several additional awards on development and innovation (Best European Video game for health-2011; Best Spanish Research Ideas-Diario Medico 2011). He has been IP in several International/ EU Grants (15) and in National Grants (22). He published more than 500 English peer-reviewed manuscripts in international journals. He is past-president of the Eating Disorders Research Society (EDRS) and current Co-Chair of the ED Section of the World Psychiatric Association (2018-2023).

 

Professor Janet Treasure

Professor Janet Treasure is a world-leading clinical and academic psychiatrist in eating disorders who works at King’s College London and the South London and Maudsley Hospital. She was awarded the OBE for her work on eating disorders.  She had many awards including the Leadership Research Award, from AED, the lifetime achievement award from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and Hilde Bruch Lecture Award-2016 (University of Tübingen, Germany). She has been a principal investigator on several multi-centre studies in eating disorders and a co-investigator on many international studies. She has mentored over 60 PhD students and numerous clinicians. She has been a member of the NICE committee for the guidelines of eating disorders twice (2004, 2017). To date, she has 44,626 citations with an h-index of 115. She has written numerous books on eating disorders. In particular she has co-written several books and other materials with people with lived experience. She has pioneered a collaborative approach of working with patients and their families  on treatment interventions and services.

 

Professor Stephen Wonderlich, Ph.D.

Stephen Wonderlich, Ph.D., is the Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences. He is past Co-Director of the Eating Disorder and Weight Management Center at Sanford Health and currently serves as Co-Director of  the Sanford Center for Biobehavioral Research. He also serves as Vice President at Sanford Research. He has published widely in the literature. He currently sits on the Editorial Board for several professional journals, is a Past-President of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and was a member of the Eating Disorder Workgroup for DSM-5. He serves, or has served, on the Board of Directors for several eating disorder organizations, including the Eating Disorder Research Society, Academy for Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Coalition, and the National Eating Disorder Association. He currently serves as the Principal Investigator on the Center for Biobehavioral Mechanisms of Eating Behavior- A Center of Biomedical Research Excellence Grant (P20GM134969),