Verifying Feighner’s Hypothesis; Anorexia Nervosa Is Not a Psychiatric Disorder
Front Psychol. 2019; 10: 2110. Published online 2019 Sep 16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02110 PMCID: PMC6756277 PMID: 31607977 Per Södersten,* Ulf Brodin, Modjtaba Zandian, and Cecilia E. K. Bergh Author information Article notes Copyright and License information Disclaimer Abstract Mental causation takes explanatory priority over evolutionary biology in most accounts of eating disorders. The evolutionary threat of starvation has produced a brain that assists us in the search for food and mental change emerges as a consequence. The major mental causation hypothesis: anxiety…