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Anorexia Nervosa and Baby Gazing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. Rutherford  and
G. F. M. Russell
J. Rutherford*
Affiliation:
Mental Health Unit, Dulwich Hospital, St Francis' Rd, London SE22 8DF
G. F. M. Russell
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF
*
∗ Correspondence
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Abstract

The uncommon behaviour of baby gazing is described in a patient who had also suffered three episodes of anorexia nervosa. The baby gazing responded to joint therapeutic interviews leading to the patient and her husband resolving their different views about having a family and the patient becoming pregnant. Even then there was a minor recurrence of anorexic behaviour which yielded to treatment.

Type
Brief Report
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 6 , June 1990 , pp. 898 - 901
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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