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  • Volume 3
  • Number 4
  • October 2005

EDITORIAL

CLINICAL SYNTHESIS

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages503–510

The diagnostic category of eating disorders encompasses anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and the heterogeneous group of eating disorders not otherwise specified, most prominent among which is binge-eating disorder, currently detailed in research ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.503

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages511–519

Obesity is a global epidemic and a health priority, and several psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia, are associated with an elevated risk of comorbid obesity. Moreover, persons with psychiatric ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.511

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages520–525

Sexual dysfunction encompasses disorders of the sexual response cycle or sex-related pain. Disorders of desire include hypoactive sexual desire disorder and sexual aversion disorder. Disorders of arousal include male erectile disorder and female arousal ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.520

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages526–531

Clinical sexuality has undergone phases of domination by psychoanalysis, behavioral sex therapy, and pharmacotherapy as its scope gradually broadened to include diverse problems of identity and function. This article provides 1) a conceptual background to ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.526

REVIEW

INFLUENTIAL PUBLICATIONS

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages618–628

Background: The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists is coordinating the development of clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) in psychiatry, funded under the National Mental Health Strategy (Australia) and the New Zealand Ministry of ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.618

Publication date: 01 October 2005

Pages629–640

This paper reports the results of a randomised treatment trial of two forms of outpatient family intervention for anorexia nervosa. Forty adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa were randomly assigned to “conjoint family therapy” (CFT) or to “separated ...

https://doi.org/10.1176/foc.3.4.629

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