THEMES OF DEATH - THOMA,HELMUT ANOREXIA-NERVOSA (1967) - A RESEARCH NOTE

In the recent literature on eating disorders, little attention is usua lly given to the possible role played by heightened death fears and an xieties and failed death transcendence in the dynamics of patients who suffer from anorexia and bulimia nervosa. For reasons that remain unc lear, early texts and articles in the literature do address death them es, particularly as they are discernible from patients' dreams and nig htmares. Thoma's 1967 text Anorexia Nervosa may be interpreted as givi ng further illustration to this thesis. (C) 1993 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.