Research Catalog

Title

Sexual abuse and eating disorders / edited by Mark F. Schwartz and Leigh Cohn.

Publication

New York : Brunner/Mazel, c1996.

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Additional Authors

• Schwartz, Mark F.
• Cohn, Leigh

Description

xii, 228 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders is the first book to fully explore the complex relationship between sexual abuse and the eating disorders. The book encompasses the compelling writings of 26 specialists who thoughtfully consider the numerous questions surrounding this controversial topic: Why would early trauma influence eating behavior? What is the association between eating disorders and sexual abuse? What impact does the controversy surrounding "false memory" have on the thinking about this association? Working from the premise that children exposed to inescapable stress throughout childhood will be at risk for compulsivity and reenactment of trauma by self-abuse syndromes, this collection provides provocative answers to these and many other questions.
• Taken as a whole, this book provides an important global view of the topic. Chapters focus attention on the prevalence of sexual abuse among individuals with eating disorders; how a history of sexual violence can serve as a predictor of subsequent food-related syndromes; trauma-based theory, dissociation, abreactive, and ego-states therapy; and a practical and theoretical exploration of the sexual self of an eating-disordered person. New perspectives on body image, feminist approaches to treatment, false memory, and the sexual self, as well as a first-person narrative that powerfully links the two phenomena, round out the discussion. Finally, a dialogue about the controversies surrounding sexual abuse and eating disorders and an examination of false memory syndrome constitute the fitting finale for this stimulating presentation.

Subject

• Feeding and Eating Disorders > therapy
• Feeding and Eating Disorders > psychology
• Feeding and Eating Disorders > etiology
• Eating disorders
• Adult child sexual abuse victims
• Feeding and Eating Disorders > etiology
• Child Abuse, Sexual > psychology
• Feeding and Eating Disorders > therapy
• Feeding and Eating Disorders > psychology
• Memory
• Feeding and Eating Disorders

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : eating disorders and sexual trauma / Mark F. Schwartz, Leigh Cohn -- Prologue : from sexual abuse to empowerment / Eileen T. Bills -- Is sexual abuse a risk factor for developing an eating disorder? / Johan Vanderlinden, Walter Vandereycken -- Speculations on the role of childhood abuse in the development of eating disorders among women / Marcia Rorty, Joel Yager -- Prevalence and process of disclosure of childhood sexual abuse among eating-disordered women / Katherine J. Miller -- Dissociation and physical abuse as predictors of bulimic symptomatology and impulse dysregulation / Cathy S. Reto, Constance J. Dalenberg, Michael T. Coe -- Sexual barrier weight : a new approach / Edward J. Weiner, Larry Stephens -- Sexual abuse, eating disorders, and prevention : political and social realities / Lana Stermac, Niva Piran, Peter M. Sheridan -- Physical and sexual abuse and neglect and eating disorder symptoms / Mark F. Schwartz, Paula Gay -- Body image disturbance in eating disorders and sexual abuse / Carolyn Costin -- Medical presentations of covert sexual abuse in eating disorder patients / Philip S. Mehler, Kenneth L. Weiner -- The emerging sexual self of the patient with an eating disorder : implications for treatment / Kathryn J. Zerbe -- Treatment of childhood sexual abuse in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa : a feminist psychodynamic approach / Ann Kearney-Cooke, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore -- Sexual revictimization : a cautionary note / Mary Chewning-Korpach -- Recognition of sexual abuse : progress and backlash / Susan C. Wooley -- Reenactment and trauma / Mark F. Schwartz, Lori D. Galperin -- In response to Wooley and to Schwartz and Galperin / Mary Chewning-Korpach, Roy J. O'Shaughnessy --Epilogue : delayed memory syndrome / Leigh Cohn, Mark F. Schwartz.

ISBN

0876307942 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^^95026500^//r96

OCLC

• 33838257
• SCSB-10951720

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library