Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas in the Involuntary Treatment o... : Harvard Review of
Psychiatry Clinical and Ethical Dilemmas in the Involuntary Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa …

Eating disorders comprise a diverse group, which includes anorexia nervosa, bulimia
nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other non specific eating disorders. Recently the rising …

As recently as 1989, no one had yet investigated the outcome of involuntary treatment in
anorexia nervosa (AN), 10 but there now exists a slender literature on the practical, clinical …

B_ ecause limited clinical in-formation was provided about the 22-year-old woman with
anorexia nervosa who died after treatment was withdrawn, as described by Drs. Philip C …

Every treatment will be confronted with the dilemma of enhancing personal well-being and
respecting the person as self-determining individual. Treatment of anorexia nervosa has to …

He &bert and Weingarten'are to be congratulated on having tried to come to grips with an
extremely difficult issue. The anorexic pa-tient must surely be a paradigm of overall …

Anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness. Predictors of
mortality include chronicity of the illness, critically low body weight, and binging and purging …

Compulsory treatment in anorexia is a controversial subject brought to the fore of public
awareness with each new case reported in the media. The attitudes towards involuntary …

Involuntary treatment of anorexia nervosa (AN) poses many clinical, medicolegal, human
rights, and ethical issues, as well as personal and familial challenges for the individual …

Medicine and ethics, rather than the law, are the dominant players in deciding if and when
coercion is appropriately deployed within clinical management of a condition. The same is …