The eating-disorder field has a long history of introducing new labels. The latest — RISH — may be the most questionable yet

The eating-disorder field has a long history of introducing new labels. The latest — RISH — may be the most questionable yet

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Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

Rachel Smeeth analyses the parallels between cults and anorexia nervosa and asks: can the mind brainwash itself?

A fundamental research discovery from a 2012 Brain Canada MIRI grant is now bringing relief to patients living with an eating disorder, which has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disease ...

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

In the third in our series on novel treatments, Anorexia Myths chats to psychiatrist Dr Romi Goldschlager about a new trial looking at the effects of estrogen on anorexia nervosa 

James Downs, Mental Health Campaigner This week, the Welsh Senedd debated proposals to introduce assisted dying but narrowly voted against it, however, momentum is growing in the UK, with public figur...

Anorexia was long thought to be almost exclusively an illness of young girls. This perception has contributed to the illness being woefully under-researched and treatment being shamefully underfunded....

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

In the third in our series on novel treatments, Anorexia Myths chats to psychiatrist Dr Romi Goldschlager about a new trial looking at the effects of estrogen on anorexia nervosa 

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

The recommendation to apply external heat to patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) was first documented by William Gull in 1874. Gull encountered this practice...

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Eating disorders campaigners are worried that people with anorexia are in danger of losing their lives under the new law

Why this idea could never have been true, if you really think about it

‘We really shouldn’t be debating anymore whether genes play a role’. We talk to Dr Cynthia Bulik about the genetics of eating disorders

They may look physically well, but it’s the mindset of someone who’s had anorexia that is important

Is the person with anorexia in control or is it controlling them?

Anorexia is not a modern malaise.

You can’t tell someone has an eating disorder by the way they look

Is somebody with anorexia nervosa choosing to be ill? Of course not. Nobody chooses to be ill. But yet this myth still persists. We look at where this misconception may have come from and why it persi...