The Causes of Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia, Bulimia, Pica
- Education:
- All Education
- CEC Category:
- Clinical Medicine
- Duration:
- 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
Tags: HDIVC23
Description
Speaker: Jerome S Blackman, MD, FIPA
Description:
Eating disorders can result from conflicts with parents, physical illnesses, social pressures, grief, damaged impulse control, or delusional thinking. Approximately 40-50% of adults in the U.S. have an eating disorder.
This presentation will address the multiple factors during child and adolescent development and distinguish among them. Attendees will learn more about these disturbances and what can be done to cure the problems, or not, depending on multiple variables. Brief (disguised) clinical stories will illustrate each point. After attending this presentation, the participant should know more about eating disorders and what can be done to prevent them and to treat them.
Speaker
Jerome S. Blackman, MD, PC Related Seminars and Products
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, EVMS
Dr. Blackman has served as a consultant to many public agencies and has had experience during his 48 years practicing psychiatry and psychoanalysis with many different disturbances, including eating disorders. For the year 2018-2019, he served as a teacher and consultant to the Jiao Tong Medical University Hospital’s Eating Disorders Unit in Shanghai, China, both onsite and online.