“…Furthermore, bulimic women vary greatly regarding the nature and extent of associated psychopathology. Some bulimic women do not exhibit any other psychiatric symptoms aside from those subsumed under the diagnosis ofbulimia (Johnson, Stuckey, Lewis, & Schwartz, 1982), whereas others show multiple types of psychopathology (Garner & Garfinkel, 1985;Garner, Garfinkel, & O'Shaughnessy, 1985;Hudson, Laffer, & Pope, 1982;Hudson, Pope, & Jonas, 1984;Lacey, 1982;Wallach & Lowenkopf, 1984). The implications of this heterogeneity for identifying risk factors are crucial.…”