[Some critical considerations on the status of the psychoanalytic discussion of bulimia]

The most discussed psychoanalytic publications about bulimia and their central thesis are critically reported. Apparent is the accent of the very early childhood development, especially the earliest stages of mother-child-symbiosis in their pathogenic influence. Only some authors oppose with regard to conflicts of later stages of development in bulimic women. Personal clinical experiences and research data support the critique of the exclusive accent of early development. Rather adolescent developmental problems and particularities of female adolescence are stressed by the author.