Anorexia nervosa in 19th century America.

Compared with late 19th century publications in Great Britain and France, medical writers in the United States of the same era apparently had less interest in anorexia nervosa as a distinct clinical syndrome. A review of the literature of that period shows that American physicians very rarely referred to the "new" syndrome described in 1873 by Gull and Lasègue. Except for some short or oblique references, the first explicit clinical description of a case of anorexia nervosa by an American author (James Hendrie Lloyd) did not appear until 1893.

Bulimia: theoretical conceptualizations and therapies.

Bulimia, a new entry in our system of nomenclature, has become more prevalent during the past decade and has stimulated a considerable amount of research. It still remains a theoretical and therapeutic puzzle in spite of a variety of efforts to conceptualize it. Treatment approaches are multitudinous and sometimes conflicting, partly due to problems in definition of the disorder, and the role of psychoanalysis is still unclear.