ArticleJournal of eating disorders2022
Terminal anorexia nervosa is a dangerous term: it cannot, and should not, be defined.
Article in Journal of eating disorders, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assisted death in eating disorders: a systematic review of cases and clinical rationales.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Do new labels solve old problems? Conceptual, ethical, and clinical challenges of constructing restrictive eating behaviours as "self-harm".Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Conceptualising trauma in eating disorders: a reflexive commentary on the role of neglect, iatrogenic harm, and epistemic injury.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- From disavowal to dialogue: forging collaborative ethical, clinical, and medical approaches to severe and enduring anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Navigating the ethical complexities of severe and enduring (longstanding) eating disorders: tools for critically reflective practice and collaborative decision-making.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Review
- Comparing hospitalized adult patients with chronic anorexia nervosa with versus without prior hospitalizations.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Discordant conceptualisations of eating disorder recovery and their influence on the construct of terminality.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- "Terminal anorexia nervosa" may not be terminal: An empirical evaluation.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- 'Terminal anorexia': a lived experience perspective.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Inaccessibility of care and inequitable conceptions of suffering: a collective response to the construction of "terminal" anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Emergency room presentations of people with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- The integrated treatment of eating disorders, posttraumatic stress disorder, and psychiatric comorbidity: a commentary on the evolution of principles and guidelines.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Eating disorders and palliative care specialists require definitional consensus and clinical guidance regarding terminal anorexia nervosa: addressing concerns and moving forward.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
A recent article (JED 10:23, 2022) proposed defining terminal anorexia to improve access to palliative and hospice care, and to medical aid in dying for a minority of patients with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa (SE-AN). The authors presented three cases and, for two, the first author participated in their death. Anorexia nervosa is a treatable psychiatric condition for which recovery may be uncertain. We are greatly concerned however regarding implications of applying the label "terminal" to anorexia nervosa and the risk it will lead to unjustified deaths in individuals whose mental illness impairs their capacity to make a reasoned treatment decision.
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