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Understanding Human Behaviour
Perspectives on anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
- 3 things to know
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Overview
Main features of anorexia nervosa, main features of bulimia nervosa and main difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
Describe the main features of bulimia nervosa.
State the main difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Questions from this subtopic
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Describe the main features of anorexia nervosa.
Model answer
Anorexia nervosa involves severe restriction of food intake leading to significantly low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of one's own body size.
- 2
Describe the main features of bulimia nervosa.
Model answer
Bulimia nervosa involves repeated episodes of eating a large amount of food with a sense of loss of control, followed by compensatory behaviour such as vomiting, laxative use, fasting or excessive exercise.
- 3
State the main difference between anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
Model answer
Anorexia nervosa is defined by sustained restriction and markedly low body weight, whereas in bulimia nervosa body weight often remains within the usual range and the pattern is one of bingeing and compensating.
- 4
Which psychoanalyst is particularly associated with the study of eating disorders?
Model answer
Hilde Bruch is the psychoanalyst particularly associated with the study of eating disorders.
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What did Bruch argue was the origin of anorexia nervosa?
Model answer
Bruch argued that anorexia nervosa develops in a young person who has never learned to identify her own needs, and that controlling food becomes the one area in which she can exercise autonomy.
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What did Bruch say about the parenting of children who later developed eating disorders?
Model answer
Bruch claimed that parents of these children had responded to their own perception of the child's needs rather than to what the child actually signalled, so the child grew up unable to recognise hunger or emotion accurately.
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