“…Eating disordered patients appear preoccupied with self-presentation and with how others perceive and evaluate them, a facet of the self first designated the "social self" by William James (1890. ' Research suggests that women with bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa experience significant difficulties in the area of social adjustment, characterized by social anxiety, impoverished relationships, and social isolation (Fairburn et al, 1990;Grissett & Norvell, 1992;Herzog, Pepose, Norman, & Rigotti, 1985;Johnson & Berndt, 1983;Mizes, 1988;Norman & Herzog, 1984;Rybicki, Lepkowsky, & Arndt, 1989;Tobin, Johnson, Steinberg, Staats, & Enright, 1991;Yager, Landsverk, & Edelstein, 1987). The social disturbances do not seem to relate simply to eating pathology: Even after the behavioral symptoms of eating disorders remit, social maladjustment has been found to persist for many patients (Casper, 1990;Herzog, Keller, Lavori, Bradburn, & Ott, 1990;Mallik, Whipple, & Huerta, 1987;Norman, Herzog, & Chauncey, 1986;Stonehill & Crisp, 1977;Yager et al, 1987).…”