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Fasting Girls—Past, Present and Future

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Current Themes in Psychiatry 2

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Severe weight loss due to deliberate reduction of food intake presents many problems to the clinician. Even when organic disease has been excluded, itself not an easy task, there remain a variety of possible psychological causes which are still poorly understood: these include affective disorders such as depressive and phobic anxiety states, certain psychotic conditions with self neglect or specific fears of food contamination, the abdominal hypochondriacal syn­dromes, psychogenic vomiting and anorexia nervosa.

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© 1979 Raghu N. Gaind and Barbara L. Hudson

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Morgan, H.G. (1979). Fasting Girls—Past, Present and Future. In: Current Themes in Psychiatry 2. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04494-8_23

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