Habit of eating either insufficient or excessive food, to the detriment of health

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Claude-Ambroise Seurat, Daniel Lambert, Jeffery Hudson and an unidentified giant, surrounded by eight vignettes of other characters. Stipple engraving.

Ann Moore, the fasting woman of Tutbury / printed by T. Wayte, High-Street, Burton, 1812.

Eva Vliegen, a woman who lived off the smell of flowers. Etching after B. Flessiers (?).

Ars longa vita brevis.

Eva Vliegen, a woman who lived off the smell of flowers. Drawing after B. Flessiers.

Psychoneurosis & schizophrenia : a classic of contemporary psychiatric thought in which fourteen of the leaders of American Psychiatry present provocative yet fundamental concepts of psychoneurosis & schizophrenia / edited with a foreword by Gene L. Usdin, MD.

Overcoming bulimia nervosa and binge-eating : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques / Peter J. Cooper.

Brenda Parry-Jones: archive

The good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / edited by Mary G. Winkler & Letha B. Cole.

A guide to adolescent mental health for parents and professionals advising young people / by Geraldine Baker.

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Feeding and Eating Disorders

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Works from the collections

Psychoneurosis & schizophrenia : a classic of contemporary psychiatric thought in which fourteen of the leaders of American Psychiatry present provocative yet fundamental concepts of psychoneurosis & schizophrenia / edited with a foreword by Gene L. Usdin, MD.

Overcoming bulimia nervosa and binge-eating : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques / Peter J. Cooper.

Brenda Parry-Jones: archive

The good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / edited by Mary G. Winkler & Letha B. Cole.

A guide to adolescent mental health for parents and professionals advising young people / by Geraldine Baker.

Feeding and Eating Disorders

Images from the collections

Images referencing Feeding and Eating Disorders

Works from the collections

Psychoneurosis & schizophrenia : a classic of contemporary psychiatric thought in which fourteen of the leaders of American Psychiatry present provocative yet fundamental concepts of psychoneurosis & schizophrenia / edited with a foreword by Gene L. Usdin, MD.

Overcoming bulimia nervosa and binge-eating : a self-help guide using cognitive behavioral techniques / Peter J. Cooper.

Brenda Parry-Jones: archive

The good body : asceticism in contemporary culture / edited by Mary G. Winkler & Letha B. Cole.

A guide to adolescent mental health for parents and professionals advising young people / by Geraldine Baker.

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