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The mortality rate of eating disorders is the highest of all psychological illnesses, but if you thought they were incurable our expert on this episode of What Makes Up Your Mind has heartening news. Dr. James Lock is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Pediatrics in the Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.
A global expert on eating disorders, Dr. Lock also directs the Stanford Eating Disorder Program for Children and Adolescents. As he explains in this episode, eating disorders gradually and sneakily take hold mostly in youth, disrupting physical and emotional development. Left unchecked serious and debilitating conditions can develop, some with fatal outcomes, including suicide. But Dr. Lock is having great success treating and curing Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa with Family Based Treatment (FBT) ...