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Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder characterized by low body weight and body image distortion with an obsessive fear of gaining weight. Individuals with anorexia often control body weight by...
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Bulimia Nervosa, commonly known as bulimia, is an eating disorder. It is a psychological condition in which the subject engages in recurrent binge eating followed by an intentional purging. This purging is done in order to compensate...
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Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is currently listed under Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) in the DSM-IV-TR. In binge eating disorder, the person does not regularly engage in compensatory behaviors, such as, vomiting...
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About Dr. Pitts

Dr. Patricia Pitts is the Chief Executive Officer of The Bella Vita
established in 1985. She is a nationally renowned expert in the
treatment of anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating and disordered eating.
She has addressed a variety of national and international
professional conferences in her twenty-seven years of treating
these disorders.

Dr. Pitts has extensive professional experience in developing and
directing inpatient hospital eating disorder programs, outpatient
eating disorder programs
and full-time outpatient group therapy
practices
. She has created, implemented and directed three
hospital programs, at CPC Alhambra Psychiatric Hospital,
Ingleside Hospital and BHC Alhambra Hospital.

Dr. Patricia Pitts is the Chief Executive Officer of The Bella Vita established in 1985. She is a nationally renowned expert in the treatment of anorexia.

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Dr. Patricia Pitts is the Chief Executive Officer
of The Bella Vita established in 1985. She is
a nationally renowned expert in the treatment
of anorexia.

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