"With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on societal pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hi ..."
"Down the centuries, self-starvation has taken many morbid guises - in the extremes of religious fasting and the abstinence of the saints; in hunger strikes; in the exhibition of iving skeletons and hunger artists; in the fate of melancholica, hystericsm the possessed and bewitched. This strange story culminates in the 19th century labelling of anorexia nervosa, a condition which has since attracted a host of theories and explanations an ..."
Eating Disorders Ser. From Fasting Saint to Anorexic Girls : The History of Self-Starvation by Walter Vandereycken, Ron VanDeth Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1994 by Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0-485-24010-8, ISBN: 0-485-24010-6
Psychiatrie(1st Edition) (Bouwstenen gezondheidszorgonderwijs) by W. Vandereycken, R. VanDeth Paperback, 265 Pages, Published 2004 by Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum ISBN-13: 978-90-313-3845-0, ISBN: 90-313-3845-1
"Niet lang daarna begon Sally het Christine in het dagelijks leven moeilijk te
maken door haar vreemde woorden en daden in te fluisteren. Later nam Sally ...
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Psychiatrie(1st Edition) van diagnose tot behandeling by Walter Vandereycken, R. VanDeth Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2011 by Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum ISBN-13: 978-90-313-8918-6, ISBN: 90-313-8918-8
Psychiatrie van diagnose tot behandeling by Walter Vandereycken, R. VanDeth 281 Pages, Published 2004 by Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum ISBN-13: 978-90-313-4187-0, ISBN: 90-313-4187-8