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W. Vandereycken and R. Meermann have already elucidated the significance of follow-up studies in eating disorders for the patient and her familiy, who are personally interested in prognosis, and for clinicians and researchers, who need to be acquainted with the spectrum of possible courses and prognostic factors and who also want to be able to justify their own methods of treatment. Here, some of the fundamental results from the literature on the long-term course of anorexia nervosa will be summarized. Since no results are presently available from long-term course studies of bulimia (though some are in preparation; see, for example, Fichter et al., this volume), this presentation will be restricted to the research on the long-term course of anorexia nervosa.
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Herzog, W., Rathner, G., Vandereycken, W. (1992). Long-Term Course of Anorexia Nervosa: A Review of the Literature. In: Herzog, W., Deter, HC., Vandereycken, W. (eds) The Course of Eating Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76634-3_2
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