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The comparative psychopathology of anorexia nervosa: Obsessive‐compulsive disorder or phobia?
Author(s) -
Solyom Leslie,
Freeman Richard J.,
Thomas Cheryl D.,
Miles James E.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198323)3:1<3::aid-eat2260030102>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , psychopathology , psychology , psychotherapist , anxiety disorder , obsessive compulsive , eating disorders , clinical psychology , anxiety , psychiatry
The current study investigates the similarities and differences between anorexic restricters, anorexic bulimics, female obsessives, agoraphobics, social phobics, and specific phobics. Measures of psychopathology were self‐ratings of adjustment, the IPAT, FSS, MPI, and LOI. Results indicated that persons suffering from anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa were more similar to obsessives than to phobics with respect to obsessional personality traits and neuroticism. Additional research is needed in the examination of the central preoccupation in order to understand the differentiation of the various disorders and to what extent anorexia nervosa is a nosological entity.