Editorial

It has been a wonderful experience to edit this eating disorders focus issue of Cutting Edge Psychiatry in Practice.The 94 contributors from seven different countries have informed, educated, updated, inspired and moved us.The topics range widely, covering history, current practice, leading edge advances such as neurosurgery, pharmacotherapy and virtual reality, together with the promise of genetics/epigenetics and the challenges of ethics.The paper on ethics highlights the difficulties in making decisions in a field in which many patients refuse treatment but a high proportion will die without it.