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nervosa. The ideas laid out in the paper are described and discussed in terms of the
understanding of anorexia nervosa at the time as well as placed in a current
clinical and theoretical context. A comment is made on whether or not, in this
author's opinion, the paper stands ‘the test of time’.
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