Compulsive Features in the Eating Disorders: A Role for Trauma?

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-249

  Lockwood, Rebecca ^a   Lawson, Rachel ^a   Waller, Glenn ^b  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CHILDHOOD; COMPULSION; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 1542531906     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000116468.54734.f4     Document Type: Article

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