Atypical Form of Food Intake Disorder, a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problem?

Overview

Paper deals with problems of atypical forms of food intake disorder. Such disorders can be divided into threegroups. First group included sub-clinical forms of food intake disorders. Patients with signs of thinning are includedinto the second group; however, their active role in slimming cannot be identified. In the third group the accompanyingsyndromes prevail, e.g. the syndrome of depression and obsessive-compulsive syndrome. Problems in the diagnosticsand therapy of those atypical forms are discussed.

Key words:
atypical mental anorexia, atypical mental bulimia.