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Themes of death: Helmut Thomä's “anorexia nervosa” (1967)—a research note
Author(s) -
Jackson Craig,
Tabin Johanna K.,
Russell Janice,
Touyz Stephen
Publication year - 1993
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(199312)14:4<433::aid-eat2260140406>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , psychoanalysis , psychology , eating disorders , psychotherapist , anorexia , bulimia nervosa , transcendence (philosophy) , psychiatry , medicine , philosophy , epistemology
In the recent literature on eating disorders, little attention is usually given to the possible role played by heightened death fears and anxieties and failed death transcendence in the dynamics of patients who suffer from anorexia and bulimia nervosa. For reasons that remain unclear, early texts and articles in the literature do address death themes, particularly as they are discernible from patients' dreams and nightmares. Thomä's 1967 text Anorexia Nervosa may be interpreted as giving further illustration to this thesis. © 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.