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Anorexia Nervosa in an 80–Year-Old Woman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

S. G. Gowers  and
A. H. Crisp
S. G. Gowers*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, now Senior Lecturer, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Adolescent Unit, Prestwich Hospital, Bury New Road, Prestwich, Manchester M25 7BL
A. H. Crisp
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 ORE
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A woman aged 80 years had suffered with anorexia nervosa in adolescence and the condition was rekindled after 50 years of remission. The remission was seen in the light of affective disorder and a chronic grief reaction.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 157 , Issue 5 , November 1990 , pp. 754 - 757
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Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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