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Case Reports
. 1972 Jun;48(560):382-4.
doi: 10.1136/pgmj.48.560.382.

Failure to thrive and anorexia nervosa

S M Smith, R Hanson
Case Reports

Failure to thrive and anorexia nervosa

S M Smith et al. Postgrad Med J. 1972 Jun.

Abstract

A case study is reported of an anorexia nervosa mother who battered her elder male child (‘battered baby’) and in collusion with her psychopathic husband starved to death her 10-week-old daughter. The association of anorexia nervosa in the mother with death by starvation has not previously been reported in the literature. The possible underlying psychopathology is briefly discussed.

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