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Anorexia Nervosa in a Woman Totally Blind Since the Age of Two

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Joel Yager ,
Cynthia A. Hatton  and
Lawrence Ma
Joel Yager*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Biohehavioral Science, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Cynthia A. Hatton
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Biohehavioral Science, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Lawrence Ma
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, UCLA, Center for the Health Sciences, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
*
Correspondence
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A 28 year-old woman, blind since the age of two, had become anorexic at 21. She had eating problems as a child, and weight preoccupation from her teens onwards. Psychiatric admission with other anorexic patients preceded the illness. Inability to see oneself does not pretect against anorexia nervosa.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 506 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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