Handbook of Eating Disorders and Obesity

In 2006, at a congress of the Eating Disorder Research Society (EDRS), an international scientific society for the research of eating disorders and obesity, the idea for this handbook was born in Port Douglas, a small Australian town in the far tropical north of the state of Queensland, Australia.In the fall of 2008, the book was published by Springer-Verlag with 59 chapters and more than 70 authors.Seven years later, the second edition was released, and now, in 2022, 14 years after the first publication of the handbook, the third edition can be published.We, the editors, are very pleased that we were able to win back almost all authors of the first edition after such a long time to revise their respective…