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Edited by David R. Allison. 634 pp. Newbury Park, Calif., Sage, 1995. $65. ISBN 0-8039-4791-7.

Although there is agreement that disorganized eating behavior and abnormal body weight are crucial issues in general medicine and psychiatry, there is a frustrating lack of agreement about how to measure these types of behavior, the consequences, and patients' attitudes. This book is a comprehensive review of methods of assessing eating behavior and weight-related problems. It attempts to deal with theory, methods, and clinical implications and it goes a long way to establish quantitative methods in these critical areas of human behavior, largely succeeding in its goal with some minor inconsistencies and omissions.

The challenge of introducing psychologically sophisticated assessment . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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