Rethinking the Eating Disorder Continuum: A Categorical Approach to Abnormal Eating

In this chapter we address the importance of considering independently, the contributions of psychological and behavioral symptoms of eating disorders when examining the continuum of eating disorders. Rather than eating disorders being continuous or discontinuous, we propose that the clinical behaviors of eating disorders are categorical (I vomit after eating) while the cognitive/psychological symptoms are continuous (I am terrified of being …