Anorexia nervosa visited and revisited: weight is the issue.
Anorexia nervosa is known as a psychiatric disorder. Many practitioners seem unaware that a patient in a starvation state is cognitively impaired and thus a poor candidate for psychotherapy. Weight restoration is a prerequisite to other treatment modalities. Many practitioners and all patients fail to recognize this illness because of a prevailing cultural idealization of thinness. Since these patients initially seem so compliant in treatment, valuable time is lost by those who fail to understand the patient's deceptiveness and the life-threatening potential of the disease.
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New Choices, Brauner Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia.
D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans