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This large book is a valuable attempt at a comprehensive survey of current psychoanalytic understanding concerning bulimia. It includes fifteen papers, one of them co-authored, and covers the contributions of sixteen authors. The focus is entirely psychoanalytic and stresses the necessity of grasping the unconscious motivations of this eating disorder in contrast to behavioral, pharmacologic, or supportive approaches. The contributions, however, show that there is no consensual, theoretical foundation, and this reflects