Eating and personality disorders

Chapter 8

Eating and personality disorders

3 topics

  1. 20Eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, atypical and other eating disorders. Epidemiology, etiology, clinical features, course, and treatmentDisorders in which eating, weight and shape come to rule a life, and in anorexia nervosa can end it. How anorexia, bulimia, binge eating and avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder are recognised, how to judge medical risk and refeed safely, and why family and individual psychological therapies, not drugs, are the treatment.
  2. 21Personality disorders: general diagnostic principles; paranoid and schizoid personality disorders; dissocial (antisocial), emotionally unstable (borderline), and histrionic personality disordersLasting, inflexible patterns of thinking, feeling and relating that begin by early adulthood and cause distress or harm. How ICD-10, DSM-5 and ICD-11 define and classify them, then the paranoid, schizoid, dissocial (antisocial), emotionally unstable (borderline) and histrionic types, their assessment, the psychological treatments that work and the small place of drugs.
  3. 22Personality disorders: general diagnostic principles; anankastic (obsessive-compulsive), anxious (avoidant), and dependent personality disorders. Other specific personality disorders, including narcissistic personality disorderThe anxious and fearful personality disorders, anankastic (obsessive-compulsive), anxious (avoidant) and dependent, and the other specific types of ICD-10, above all narcissistic personality disorder. How each is recognised, told apart from the anxiety disorders and OCD it resembles, and treated with psychotherapy, with drugs kept for comorbid illness.