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Anorexia presents two main problems, how to understand or explain the phenomenon and how best to help people who are displaying anorexic behaviour. To many people anorexia is a complete enigma. The idea of people starving themselves to emaciation, even to death, seems a phenomenon utterly devoid of meaning and an almost alien challenge to even primitive joy, and to life itself.
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Bromley, E. (1983). Anorexia Nervosa: Counselling and Self-Help Groups — An Introduction. In: Karas, E. (eds) Current Issues in Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3721-8_7
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