Gerald Francis Morris Russell (12 January 1928 – 26 July 2018)[1][2] was a British psychiatrist.
Gerald Francis Morris Russell's father was a diplomate who worked at the British Embassy in Belgium.
During this time he noticed patients who were overeating, followed by self-induced vomiting or using purgatives or both and a morbid fear of becoming fat, which did not fit the classic description of anorexia nervosa.
[1] From 1979 to 1993 he was a professor at the Institute of Psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London,[3] where he set up an eating disorder unit,[8] which has been named after him.
[3] He used family therapy as a treatment for eating disorders and -in one of the earliest and most influential critical assessments of its efficacy- evaluated it in a controlled trial.