[The anorexia nervosa syndrome]

The syndrome of anorexia nervosa may be conditioned through a disturbance in the function of the cerebral-hypothalamic pituitary axis on different places. Besides of the discussion of psychiatric, endocrinological and neurophysiological papers our findings of 30 patients are presented. We found distinctions in the grade and character of the vegetative and endocrine disturbances, in the educational style of the family as well as in the final inducement to falling ill and in the psychodynamics of these patients which became cases of anorexia nervosa during or after the puberty. A complex therapeutic concept based on the intended dynamic group psychotherapy (H ö c k) is represented.