482 pg, (hardcover) ‘07

The Clinical Manual of Eating Disorders provides sound therapeutic advice based on current research and clinical practice. It extensively expands on approaches for well-known disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa covered by the third edition of the American Psychiatric Association's "Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders." It also covers strategies for night eating and related syndromes, obesity and weight management in relation to psychiatric medications, psychiatric aspects of bariatric surgery, and management of patients with chronic, intractable eating disorders.

 Ranging widely from determining initial treatment approaches to addressing problems posed by unique groups of patients, this book focuses squarely on what psychiatrists need to know about the clinical assessment and management of patients with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and obesity. Its insights will enable clinicians to better make nuanced assessments of patients with these conditions, present the best available evidence about treatment options to patients and their families, and initiate and conduct treatment interventions with the majority of patients they encounter. Clinical vignettes illustrate specific techniques and strategies to help anchor the discussions in the decision-making situations commonly faced by practitioners.

Contributors include: Arnold Andersen, Michael Devlin, Daniel le Grange, James D. Lock, James E. Mitchell, Randy Sansone, Ron Thompon, Kathryn Zerbe, and many more.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Joel Yager, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California at Los Angeles.

Pauline S. Powers, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine in the College of Medicine at University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.