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Brief Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

Outcome at One Year

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

A. Hall  and
A. H. Crisp
A. Hall*
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London, (The London Hospital)
A. H. Crisp
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London
*
The Emanuel Miller Centre for Families and Children, The Health Centre, Gill Street, London E14 SHQ
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Thirty out-patients with severe anorexia nervosa were randomly allocated to either 12 sessions of dietary advice or 12 sessions of combined individual and family psychotherapy. At one-year follow-up both groups showed significant overall improvement, and the dietary advice group showed significant weight gain. A similar mean weight gain for the psychotherapy patients did not reach statistical significance, but this group made significant improvements in sexual and social adjustment.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 151 , Issue 2 , August 1987 , pp. 185 - 191
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1987 

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