Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a mental disorder characterised by a refusal to maintain body weight at or above 85% of the minimally normal weight for age and height, an intense fear of gaining weight and a disturbance in the way in which one’s body is perceived such that the sufferer is often unable to see that s/he is underweight. Contemporary psychodynamic, feminist and neuropsychological accounts of AN present only partial and sometimes conflicting accounts of this disorder. A quantum psychopathological account of AN might therefore enrich our understanding of this disorder by providing links between the social and the neural explanations for AN while at the same time adding substantially to their depth

anorexia nervosa, eating disorders, quantum paradigms of psychopathology, object relations, psychotherapy