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In considering family psychopathology and anorexia nervosa, there are at least three principal concerns. Firstly, the influence of enduring rearing patterns within a family system, or of enduring disorder within family members, on an individual’s propensity to develop anorexia nervosa; here we are asking by what means may a family’s habitual modes of functioning increase or decrease the likelihood of anorexia nervosa occurring in adolescent daughters? Secondly, in a clinical setting do individual family members or the family system as a whole, facilitate or obstruct care and hence growth? here we are concerned with the means by which a family system maintains an illness pattern. Thirdly, and perhaps from a clinical point of view, most importantly, to what extent does a family based intervention affect outcome?
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Kalucy, R.S. (1983). Family Psychopathology and Anorexia Nervosa. In: Krakowski, A.J., Kimball, C.P. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4496-4_15
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