Developing an Evidence-Based Classification of Eating Disorders

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 *

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.

Foreword. Introduction. Part 1: Improving the Definition of Symptoms and Syndromes of Eating Disorders. Rethinking the nosology of eating disorders. Eating disorder not otherwise specified: theoretical and empirical advances since the publication of a meta-analysis covering 1987-2007. Current and future directions for the assessment of the cognitive criteria for anorexia nervosa. Characterization, significance, and predictive validity of binge size in binge eating disorder. Eating behavior in obese binge eating disoder, obese non-binge eating disorder, and non-obese control participants: a naturalistic study. Loss-of-control eating as a predictor of weight gain and the development of overweight, depressive symptoms, binge drinking, and substance use. Part 2: Empirical Approaches to Classification: Methodological Considerations and Research Findings. Empirical approaches to the classification of eating disorders. Latent structure analyses of eating disorder diagnoses: critical review of results and methodological issues. Empirical taxonomy of patients with eating disorders. Validating eating disorder classification models with mortality and recovery data. Latent structure of bulimic syndromes: an empirical approach utilizing latent profile analyses and taxometric analyses. Part 3: Eating and Feeding Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence. Classification of eating disturbance in children and adolescents: proposed changes for DSM-5. Validation of a diagnostic classification of feeding disorders in infants and young children. Eating disorders in children and adolescents: diagnostic differences and clinical challenges. Loss of control over eating in children and adolescents. Diagnostic classification of eating disorders in children and adolescents: how does DSM-IV-TR compare to empirically derived categories? Part 4: Cultural Considerations in the Classification of Eating Disorders. Culture and eating disorders classification. Eating disorders in Native American populations: a review of prevalence studies. Eating disorder symptoms of Native American and white adolescents. Should non-fat-phobic anorexia nervosa be included in the DSM-5? Eating disorders in Japan: cultural context, clinical features and future directions. Comparison of female Japanese and Canadian eating disorder patients on the Eating Disorder Inventory. A latent profile analysis of the typology of bulimic symptoms in an indigenous Pacific population: evidence of cross-cultural variation in phenomenology. Index.