ANOREXIA

Acepted symptoms, published by J.P.Feighner and associates in 1972

1. Onset prior to the age of twenty-five
2. Lack of appetite accompanied by loss of at least 25 percent of original body weight.
3. A distorted, implacable attitude to eating, food, or weight that overides hunger, admonitions, reassurance, and threats; for example, (a) denial of illness with a failure to recognise nutritional needs, (b) apparent enjoyment in losing weight with overt manifestation that refusing food is a pleasurable indulgence, (c) a desired body image of extreme thiness with overt evidence that is rewarding to the patient to achieve and maintain this state, and (d) unusual handling or hoarding of food.
4. No known medical illness that could account for the anorexia and weight loss.
5. No other known psychiatric disorder, particularly primary affective disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-complusive disorder, and phobic neurosis. (The assumpltion is made that even though it may......

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Title: Anorexia And Causation
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