Anorexia Nervosa in an 80–Year-Old Woman
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 157 (5) , 754-757
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.157.5.754
Abstract
A woman aged 80 years had suffered with anorexia nervosa in adolescence and the condition was rekindled after 50 years of remission. The remission was seen in the light of affective disorder and a chronic grief reaction.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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