Aetiology of anorexia nervosa: from a “psychosomatic family model” to a neuropsychiatric disorder?
✍ Scribed by Beate Herpertz-Dahlmann; Jochen Seitz; Kerstin Konrad
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 175 KB
- Volume
- 261
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-8491
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