Product Description: Obesity has become a major health epidemic. The psychiatric aspects of obesity--contributing to the condition as well as resulting from it--are important for every psychiatrist to understand. This issue examines obesity from a psychiatric standpoint, discussing topics such as body image, behavioral assessment and treatment, obesity and psychiatric status, and self-help programs...read more

Product Description: The contemporary successor to the editors' earlier Obesity: Theory and Therapy, this comprehensive handbook guides mental health, medical, and allied health professionals through the process of planning and delivering individualized treatment services for those seeking help for obesity...read more

Product Description: The statistics are powerful and alarming: perhaps as many as 6 million Americans suffer from night eating syndrome, or NES, an eating disorder which describes behavior patterns in which an individual obsessively consumes more than half of his or her daily caloric intake after eight o'clock in the evening...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Established for more than 10 years as a leading clinical reference on obesity, this volume has now been thoroughly revised to reflect contemporary medical views on the causes and treatment of obesity and related eating disorders. 30 experts synthesize the large amount of recent research on the neural mechanisms that control food intake, the regulation of energy metabolism and body weight, and the role of genetic, environmental and cultural factors in obesity, and offer sound guidelines on all current treatment options - from diets, exercise, and behavioural therapies, to appetite - suppressant drugs, to surgery for severe obesity...read more

Product Description: The lack of balance and the failure of regulation in life has traditionally been recognized in such extreme symbolic acts as overconscientiousness or a criminal lack of conscience. This volume shows how the neurotic process affects biologic functions, distorting natural functioning...read more

Product Description: Book by Stunkard, Albert J.

Product Description: Book by Stunkard, Albert J.