eating psychopathology

English

Noun

eating psychopathology (plural eating psychopathologies)

1. The mindset behind an eating disorder or more.
   • 2009 October 7, Julie Taylor, “Commentary on Kong S and Bernstein K (2009) Childhood trauma as a predictor of eating psychopathology and its mediating variables in patients with eating disorders Journal of Clinical Nursing 18, 1897–1907”, in Journal of Clinical Nursing, volume 18, number 21, →DOI, page 3062a:

     Kong and Bernstein acknowledge the definitional limitations of other studies linking child maltreatment to eating psychopathologies and their study, therefore, included all five forms of childhood trauma captured in the CTQ: emotional abuse; physical abuse; sexual abuse; emotional neglect and physical neglect.

   • 2020 August 5, L. Vuillier, Z. Carter, A. R. Teixeira, R. L. Moseley, “Alexithymia may explain the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorder psychopathology”, in Molecular Autism‎^[1], volume 11, →DOI, page 63 seqq.:

     The literature thus far suggests that autistic traits or diagnosed autism are important moderators of individual risk of eating psychopathology, alongside prognosis and treatment response.