The conceptualization of fairly new disorders such as bulimia (nervosa) is usually based on an analogy model. In that sense, bulimia has been interpreted on phenomenological grounds as being a form of addictive behavior. We discuss this assumption as well as its therapeutic implications.
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Walter Vandereycken (1990) studied this question.
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