Body image distortion in Anorexia Nervosa - Is there really a perceptual deficit

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 200-206

  Hennighausen, K ^a   Enkelmann, D ^a   Wewetzer, C ^b   Remschmidt, H ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anorexia Nervosa; Body image perception; Perceptual distortion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION DISORDER; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0032732609     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007870050130     Document Type: Article

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