Eating disorders (EDs) are one of the most severe and complex mental health problems facing researchers and clinicians today. The effective prevention and treatment of these conditions is therefore of paramount importance. However, at present our treatments fall short: generally demonstrating only poor to moderate efficacy, and often completely ineffective for severe or chronic cases. A possible reason for this is that the current theories underlying these treatments are flawed. In this paper, we review and evaluate several prominent theoretical explanations associated with current frontline and promising treatments for ED. In doing so, we identify fundamental problems within the construction of current ED explanations and their implications for treatment. In response to these findings, we propose several strategies for the construction of future ED explanations which we believe have the power to ameliorate these problems and potentially help to develop more efficacious treatment downstream.

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饮食失调的解释：批判性分析

饮食失调 (ED) 是当今研究人员和临床医生面临的最严重和最复杂的心理健康问题之一。因此，有效预防和治疗这些疾病至关重要。然而，目前我们的治疗还不够：通常仅表现出较差到中等的疗效，并且对于严重或慢性病例通常完全无效。造成这种情况的一个可能原因是这些治疗方法的当前理论存在缺陷。在本文中，我们回顾和评估了与当前一线和有希望的 ED 治疗相关的几个突出的理论解释。在这样做的过程中，我们确定了当前 ED 解释的构建中的基本问题及其对治疗的影响。针对这些发现，