Word: bulimias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bulimia Nervosa...
...Bulimia, a disorder characterized by frequent binge eating and purging, is widely believed to be the most common clinical eating disorder at Harvard...
Various eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia, plague one-fifth of college women nationwide, Wilson said...
Holly's therapy began in 1989, when she was suffering from bulimia. Her worried mother Stephanie consulted Marche Isabella, a family counselor, who told her -- inaccurately -- that up to 80% of all bulimia cases are caused by childhood sex abuse. After a few months of therapy with Isabella, Holly began having flashbacks of her father abusing her. Eventually she claimed to have remembered a dozen incidents of abuse and rape between the ages of five and eight. Later Holly asked to be treated with sodium amytal, which she hoped would elicit the truth. Isabella enlisted psychiatrist Dr. Richard Rose...
Ramona's attorney, Richard Harrington, called on expert witnesses to discredit Isabella's and Rose's therapeutic techniques. Harvard bulimia expert Harrison Pope presented a paper stating that there is "no relationship" between childhood sexual abuse and the development of bulimia. Martin Orne, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist who pioneered research of hypnosis and sodium amytal, wrote in a court brief that the drug is "not useful in ascertaining 'truth' . . . The patient becomes sensitive and receptive to suggestions due to the context and to the comments of the interviewers." Dr. Lenore Terr, a prominent defender of recovered memories...