Two detailed case histories of young women with anorexia nervosa are presented to demonstrate the impact of experiences in infancy and early childhood on psycho... » 

Two detailed case histories of young women with anorexia nervosa are presented to demonstrate the impact of experiences in infancy and early childhood on psychopathology. The book begins with an overview of the importance of infancy and a review of the psychoanalytic literature on anorexia, then dis «