Abstract
Diagnosticians have typically been taught that if you do not consider it, you will not diagnose it. The resultant index of suspicion, while important in the diagnosis of any disorder, is all the more important in the case of males with eating disorders. First, the preponderance of studies show that the female-to-male ratio of anorexia nervosa lies in the range of 10–20 to 1. Second, most clinicians do not even see significant numbers of female eating-disordered patients. Thus there clearly remain those who do not even realize that anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa can be diagnosed in the male. A study done in 1979 found that 40 percent of internists and 25 percent of psychiatrists believed that anorexia nervosa only occurs in the female sex.1 A 1983 survey found that at least one-quarter of psychiatrists and psychologists considered femaleness as fundamental to anorexia nervosa.1
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Eller, B. (1993). Males with Eating Disorders. In: Giannini, A.J., Slaby, A.E. (eds) The Eating Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8300-0_12
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