Bulimia nervosa (BN) is an eating disorder characterized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV) as episodes of bingeing defined as eating a larger than normal amount of food in a relatively short period of time. The binges are accompanied by feelings of loss of control, guilt or shame. These adolescents overvalue body shape and weight and have some compensatory behaviours aimed at...

The aim of the article was an attempt to present selected theoretical motifs and moreover self experience in the adaptation of elements of psychodrama by Moreno in psychodynamic psychotherapy (individual and group psychotherapy) in a group of people with anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Psychodrama through own creativity, spontaneity and taking action on the "here and now" stage helps to attain an...

This paper is concerned with the psychopathological processes that account for the persistence of severe eating disorders. Two separate but interrelated lines of argument are developed. One is that the leading evidence-based theory of the maintenance of eating disorders, the cognitive behavioural theory of bulimia nervosa, should be extended in its focus to embrace four additional maintaining m...

Childhood anxiety disorders may increase the likelihood of these disorders, although no clear cause has been identified for either illness. Women suffer from anorexia and bulimia more frequently than men do. The lifetime prevalence of anorexia varies from 0.3% to 1% for women; men are estimated to have one tenth of that prevalence. Bulimia is more common than anorexia, with a lifetime prevalenc...