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MUCH HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT THE MEANING AND TREATment of anorexia nervosa, but most of the representative, rather divergent views are contained in the psychiatric literature. These reports are preoccupied with establishing essential criteria for its diagnosis (e.g., Feighner et al., 1972); (Rollins and Piazza, 1978) and with designing treatment programs aimed primarily at rapidly instituting weight gain, with or without hospitalization.
A search of the analytic literature, on the other hand, revealed only occasional, incidental references to this condition; a few early papers written by analysts mostly for nonanalytic publications (Deutsch et al., 1940); (Brosin, 1941); (Masserman, 1941); (Eissler, 1943); (Lorand, 1944); (Bond, 1949); but only one recent paper (Mogul, 1980) devoted to anorexia nervosa, and even this paper did not contain detailed case material based on analytic data. It is for this reason that I venture to submit a single case report of a 4½-year analysis of a neurotic adolescent girl with anorexia nervosa. I hope that the clinical material will