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Many authors consider that Anorexia Nervosa (AN) results from the refusal of an adult female body, that is to say, a sexually attractive and menstruating female body (Beckers, Bruch, Codet, Deutsch, Feldman, Fenichel, Freud A, Sandor-Laurand, Selvini, Thoma...). In order to verify this assertion, we studied six criteria of femininity in 100 cases of female AN.
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Buvat-Herbaut, M., Buvat, J. (1982). Femininity in Anorexia Nervosa. In: Prill, HJ., Stauber, M., Pechatschek, PG. (eds) Advances in Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81876-9_44
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