An overview of risk factors for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder

Clinical Handbook of Eating Disorders: An Integrated Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 117-164

  Jacobi, Corinna ^a   Morris, Lisette ^b   De Zwaan, Martina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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