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1. What reasons can be given for the question that EDs are mostly seen in women and very few in men? Can muscle dysmorphia in men be seen as variant of AN?
2. What is your opinion about the conclusion in the book that BN is a culture-bound syndrome and AN is not a culture bound syndrome?
3. Why are eating disorders more often seen in female than in male identical twins? Is this dueto genetic factors, or due to cultural and environmental factors?
4. Which strategies might be used to increase the motivation of ED patients to improve their food intake?
5. Which strategy is used in a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)?
What are the possibilities and shortcomings of CBT and re psychodynamic therapy and interpersonal therapy (IPT) solutions for these shortcomings?
6. Whichtherapy might be useful to change the negative self-evaluation and critical thoughts of ED patients?
7. What criteria for recovery are important for full recovery and why?
8. What are the best strategies for primary prevention and can primary prevention have negative effects?






























1. What reasons can be given for the question that EDs aremostly seen in women and very few in men?

Overall, eating disorders occur more frequently in women than in men and that has been a confirmed finding from treatment, epidemiological and school based investigations on various correlated aspects associated with EDs such as body dissatisfaction, eating patterns and full-blown eating disordered symptomatology.
Nevertheless, research has failed topoint out the ED occurrence in men, since men are excluded from the study of eating disorders. Less than 10% of research conducted in eating disorders has evaluated these problems in men and this is one of the reasons accounting for men presented to have less eating disorders. Another reason accounting for low eating disorder occurrence in men is the fact that physicians are more likely torecognize and suggest treatment on women and less in men, suggesting that the stereotype that women are more prone to develop an eating disorder is well established.
In general, most research suggests that there are most similarities than differences in between men and women with eating disorders, but there appear to exist specific correlates of eating pathology in men than in women.
The uniquefactors seen in men with eating disorders are relevant to increasing the essence of weight control. In men it has been observed that being overweight acts more a specific risk factor in developing eating disorders, while girls mostly exhibit weight-gaining phobia.
Participation in sports to emphasize low body weight or low percentage in body fat have been observed in men and homosexuality was amongthe risk factors for developing an ED in men.
Conclusion: This specific posed stereotype though has augmented the disparity between genders and eating disorders occurrence, which are more conceptualize on the basis of occurring more in the female perspective. Various features associated with eating disorders, such as weight phobia, have been seen as creating problems in the uniformity of thediagnostic classification of eating disorders and there is need for more inclusive definition in pathology for both men and women.




Can muscle dysmorphia in men be seen as variant of AN?

There is a speculation that there is a specific type of eating disorder only seen in men, called muscle dysmorphia, a condition that impairs the perception of the body, which is seen as much more smallerthan in reality including synchronically altered eating patterns. This type of disorder is seen as in between a body dysmorphic disorder and an eating disorder. It is also called reverse anorexia. Interestingly, as the cultural ideation in women for thinness, men’s ideation involves muscularity. The body dissatisfaction in men is seen more in terms of being larger. Concerning the fact that muscle...