“Redefining Western Culture-Bound Syndromes: The Classification of Anorexia Nervosa”
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Psychosomatic syndromes and anorexia nervosa
BACKGROUND In spite of the role of some psychosomatic factors as alexithymia, mood intolerance, and somatization in both pathogenesis and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN), few studies have investigated the prevalence of psychosomatic syndromes in AN. The aim of this study was to use the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research (DCPR) to assess psychosomatic syndromes in AN and to eval...
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عنوان ژورنال: UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2373-809X
DOI: 10.5070/m482030792