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Eating Disorders in Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

G. C. Lyketsos ,
P. Paterakis ,
A. Beis  and
C. G. Lyketsos
G. C. Lyketsos*
Affiliation:
University of Athens, Greece
P. Paterakis
Affiliation:
Dromokaition Mental Hospital, Athens, Greece
A. Beis
Affiliation:
Dromokaition Mental Hospital, Athens, Greece
C. G. Lyketsos
Affiliation:
Washington University Medical School, St Louis, Missouri, USA
*
∗Correspondence.
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Summary

An investigation of eating disorders in a population of chronic schizophrenic patients confirmed that there is a distinction between eating disorders of psychotics and eating disorders of the young. All the DSM-III criteria of eating disorders, except one, were observed among the psychotics although no patient fulfilled the necessary criteria for an eating disorder diagnosis except for one anorexic woman. All varieties of schizophrenic eating disorder were reported: in two-fifths of the patients eating disorders were associated with delusions and in one sixth with hallucinations; more than half of the patients had deviant eating behaviour which was not associated with any thought or perceptual disorders. Schizophrenic eating disorders were common, yet not disturbing to the social life of the open mental hospital or to that of the community surrounding it.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 146 , Issue 3 , March 1985 , pp. 255 - 261
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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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