Deriving from theory, experiments and applied Health Psychology, this report will present definitions of the different types of eating disorders i.e. anorexia nervosa and bulimia. It will provide etiology of the different types of eating disorders according to the different psychology school of thoughts; briefly it will present the causes according to psychoanalytic, cognitive, learning school of thought and will analyze the possibility of genetic influences and whether some of these disorders could be …showed first 75 words of 1840 total…

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