Alexithymia, a compounding factor for eating and social avoidance symptoms in anorexia nervosa

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue , 2015, Pages 217-228

  Courty, Annaig ^a,b,c   Godart, Nathalie ^b,c   Lalanne, Christophe ^b,d   Berthoz, Sylvie ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

^c Universite Paris Sud   (France)

^d SAINT LOUIS HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EATING DISORDER INVENTORY; EMOTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEELING OF INADEQUACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS DEFICIT; INTERPERSONAL MISTRUST; INTERVIEW; LIEBOWITZ SOCIAL ANXIETY SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF ADMINISTRATION TEST; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; STARVATION; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PHOBIC DISORDERS;

EID: 84920711939     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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