Abnormal grief and eating disorders within a mother-son dyad.
A 50-year-old married woman with a history of recurrent depression developed a severe abnormal grief reaction following the death of her son (who had recovered from an eating disorder) in a car crash. The patient reported a number of bizarre rituals involving her son's ashes and personal effects obtained post mortem. She developed anorexia nervosa four months after his death.
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Leicestershire Social Services Department, UK.
D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000523:psychology; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012753:Shared Paranoid Disorder / Q000523:psychology*