Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 118-123 , March 2007

Body image in patients with eating disorders and their mothers, and the role of family functioning

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 2 , Pages 118-123 , March 2007

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