Failure to thrive and anorexia nervosa
- 1 June 1972
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
- Vol. 48 (560) , 382-384
- https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.48.560.382
Abstract
Summary: A case study is reported of an anorexia nervosa mother who battered her elder male child (‘battered baby’) and in collusion with her psychopathic husband starved to death her 10-week-old daughter. The association of anorexia nervosa in the mother with death by starvation has not previously been reported in the literature. The possible underlying psychopathology is briefly discussed.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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- Failure to thrive in the “neglected” child.Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1967