Eating Sleeping and Sex

<p>The lack of balance and the failure of regulation in life has traditionally been recognized in such extreme symbolic acts as overconscientiousness or a criminal lack of conscience. This volume shows how the neurotic process affects biologic functions, distorting natural functioning. Three distinct functions and their respective extremes are discussed: eating (obesity, bulimia nervosa), sleeping (insomnia, excessive somnolence), and sex (hypersexuality including child molestation, hyposexuality including inhibited sexual desires).</p> <p><b>Contents: A.J. Stunkard,</b> Perspectives on Human Obesity. <b>M.R.C. Greenwood,</b> Sexual Dimorphism and Obesity. <b>K.D. Browell, L.J. Stein,</b> Metabolic and Behavioral Effects of Weight Loss and Regain: A Review of the Animal and Human Literature. <b>J.E. Morley, J.F. Flood, A. Cherkin, J.E. Mitchell,</b> Parallels in Neurotransmitter Control of Feeding and Memory. <b>G.T. Wilson,</b> The Treatment of Bulima Nervosa: A Cognitive-Social Learning Analysis. <b>R. Andres,</b> Does the "Best" Body Weight Change with Age? <b>W.B. Kannel, L.A. Cupples,</b> Cardiovascular and Noncardiovascular Consequences of Obesity. <b>D.J. Kupfer, C.F. Reynolds III,</b> Slow Wave Sleep as a 'Protective' Factor. <b>D.F. Dinges,</b> The Nature of Sleepiness: Causes, Contexts, and Consequences. <b>P. Hauri,</b> The Cognitve Behavioral Treatment of Insomnia. <b>P. Schreiner-Engel,</b> Low Sexual Desire: Biological Implications. <b>J.W. Bradford,</b> The Organic Treatment of Violent Sexual Offenders. <b>G.G. Abel,</b> Behavioral Treatment of Child Molesters.</p>