Central to the psychopathology of the female with anorexia nervosa is her distorted gender identity. Difficulties faced by all therapists in their work with anorexic patients are briefly reviewed, and then the discussion focuses on those difficulties from the female therapist's perspective.
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Frances R. Frankenburg (1984) studied this question.
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