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Are Eating Disorders Forms of Affective Disorder?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Peter J. Cooper
Affiliation:
Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
Christopher G. Fairburn
Affiliation:
Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
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Abstract

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Copyright © 1983 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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