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Anorexia nervosa (better described as ‘Magersucht’ or ‘pursuit of thinness’) and psychosomatic obesity are well known eating/weight disorders which have to be included in the differential diagnosis of primary or secondary amenorrhea, labeled as ‘psychogenic’ (see e.g. Fries 1974).
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Vandereycken, W. (1982). Uncommon Eating/Weight Disorders Related to Amenorrhea, Infertility and Problematic Pregnancy. In: Prill, HJ., Stauber, M., Pechatschek, PG. (eds) Advances in Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynecology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81876-9_33
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