Some recent case-reports in the psychiatric literature have presented patients who bloodlet and suggested that theirs is a rare pathological behaviour which is part of the purgative psychopathology associated with bulimia nervosa. Other reports have construed bloodletting as a self-mutilative behavi
Bulimia nervosa and disorders of gonadal differentiation and maturation
โ Scribed by Tattersall, Mark L. ;McCluskey, Sara ;Shur, Eric ;Lacey, J. Hubert
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 462 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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