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Emergence of bulimia nervosa as a separate diagnostic entity: Review of the literature from 1960 to 1979
Author(s) -
Vandereycken Walter
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(199409)16:2<105::aid-eat2260160202>3.0.co;2-e
Subject(s) - bulimia nervosa , overeating , psychology , anorexia nervosa , binge eating , eating disorders , psychiatry , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , obesity , medicine
With Russell's description of bulimia nervosa in 1979, followed by the DSM‐III diagnosis of bulimia, a “new” eating syndrome found its official acceptance in the scientific world. In the two preceding decades clinicians and researchers gradually payed more attention to special forms of overeating. In the 1970s the nosographic conceptualizations of binge eating, bulimia, compulsive eating, or hyperorexia clearly shifted from a symptom level–closely connected to anorexia nervosa and/or obesity–to a syndrome level. Around the same time and independently from one another, clinicians from different countries proposed various descriptive labels for this new diagnostic entity, which, finally, became accepted as bulimia nervosa. © 1994 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.