Using Weight to Control the Uncontrollable

Bulimic behavior? Jane M. Blackwell, Ph.D., remembers how people would wrinkle their foreheads when she used the phrase in lectures 15 years ago. "Now it's a household word. "We thought bulimia would be gone, that it was a fad," said the clinical psychologist, who first held a therapy session on body image in 1979. "But it's epidemic." Lynne Dickey, M.S., isn't surprised. She's watched the enrollment in her College of Health class, "Understanding Eating Disorders & Body Image," double in recent years. Many of the students have had anorexia or bulimia.