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Family pathology and anorexia in the Indian context
P S Chandra1, A Shah, J Shenoy
1Family Psychiatry Unit, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore, India.
The International Journal of Social Psychiatry
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
Frequent associations have been found between family interaction and anorectic behaviour. Family theorists have viewed anorexia as a manifestation of a dysfunctional family system. We report three families of cases of anorexia (one male and two female) where the symptom was a reflection of family pathology and was being maintained by it. The cases emphasize the need to assess families of anorectics in detail and view them in the cultural context of eating.