PSYC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Gull, Anorexia Nervosa, Saint Veronica
PSYCH 134 Lecture 1
4/4/2018
• Self-starvation in historical accounts
o Late 4th-8th centuries
▪ Self-starvation attributed to demonic possession
▪ .o. oa said to die of self-staatio
▪ 870 male case reported of self-starvation
▪ 700-1000 St. Wilgefortis
• eaded sait→lanugo
o 1200
▪ hol aoeia ad hol fastig
▪ induce hallucinations?
▪ Saint Catherine of Siena, St Veronica and religious ascetics
• Ideas that the ould’t eat eause of eligious easos
• Latter had excessive exercise
o First medical description
▪ 1689: Morton thesis describes nervous atrophy/nervous consumption of
a girl and a boy
• loss of appetite, emaciation, amenorrhea, over-activity,
indifference to their condition
▪ 17th and 18th etuies: iaulous aids
• iale the ee ale to continue living
▪ 1703: Hardenus thesis documenting AN as a gastric nerve and spirit and
feeding disease
o 1860 Marce documented form of hypochondria in self-starvation
o 1812-1970: 40 AN cases among 36,000 English hospital admissions
o 1804: Imbert descirbes anorexie nerveuse
o 1860: Chipley describes sitomania
o 18th and 19th etu: fastig gils
▪ Victorian, pre-adolescent girls who could live over a long time w/out
nourishment
▪ Claimed to have special powers
▪ Viewed in a circus-like fashion
▪ Binge-eating after crowds went away
o 1873: Sir William Gull: anorexia nervosa
▪ credited w naming
▪ adolescent girls 16-24 that were trying on purpose to lose weight
▪ most prominent description
▪ advised to treat w/ feeding despite patient protests
o 1873: Ernest-Charles Lasegue named the condition
o 1875: Brungoli named anoressia
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