Self-love, self-control, and alexithymia: narcissistic features of two bulimic adolescents.
The authors discuss two bulimic adolescent girls who also met the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. The literature for both disorders is reviewed and three areas of common dynamics are elucidated. Bulimia appears to be part of a constellation of symptoms.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000150:complications*; D009289:Narcissism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D012649:Self Concept; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology