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willow
this was a surprisingly important book for me
Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males by Tom Wooldridge
willow
a lot of really interesting tidbits and a lot of all-too-familiar observations, plus plenty i never knew before. it made me laugh so many times because of how frequently absurd it all is
Writing in the 1860s, Sir William Gull noted that the illness occurs in male patients. Around the same time, French physician Ernest-Charles Lasgue incisively described the family dynamics of male patients with anorexia nervosa (Andersen, 2014). These two physicians are also known for giving anorexia nervosa its cumbersome name. In fact, the disease received the name “anorexia nervosa” instead of “anorexia hysterica” because of the existence of male patients who could not be labeled “hysterical” according to medical custom at that time (Silverman, 1990). Over the next 100 years, however, males are almost unmentioned in the literature.