title: Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and eating disorders.
abstract: Obsessions, compulsions, and personality traits such as perfectionism and inflexibility are commonly described in eating disorder patients. A lack of precise clarification has existed in defining the presence of obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder in the various eating disorder subtypes. Research clarifying these definitions and the components of perfectionism as it pertains to eating disorders is reviewed in this article.
authors.affiliation: Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA. kah29@cornell.edu
authors.forename: Katherine A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Halmi