Crisp, Arthur, Gowers, Simon, Joughin, Neil, McClelland, Lisa, Rooney, Barbara, Nielsen, Soren, Bowyer, Carol, Halek, Chris, and Hartman, David (2006) Anorexia nervosa in males: similarities and differences to anorexia nervosa in females. European Eating Disorders Review, 14 (3). pp. 163-167.

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INTRODUCTION Previous single case reports of males with anorexia nervosa from our database focused on the roles of gender and general personal identity conflicts and panic/guilt over the consequences of impulsivity in precipitating out the illness (Davis & Crisp, 1993; Fry & Crisp, 1989; Toms & Crisp, 1972), the growth stunting but reversible effects of early onset (Toms & Crisp, 1972), and a 35-year long follow-up of a case first seen in 1959 (Crisp, 1995). Our first reported series of 13 male patients (Crisp & Toms, 1972) drew attention to the many similarities to a female population but emphasised, descriptively, the high prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in the parents, often bound in with phobic avoidance behaviours and commonly coupled with over-protectiveness of the patient during childhood.

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