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
Personality pathology in purging disorder and bulimia nervosa
β Scribed by Brown, Tiffany A. ;Haedt-Matt, Alissa A. ;Keel, Pamela K.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 91 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-3478
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