Modern Misconception
- Since the mid-1800s, we've gained a deeper understanding of why anorexia develops, but its early associations with hysteria have been difficult to escape
- Anorexia and hysteria are not the same illness
- In a 1982 Life Magazine article, it was claimed that "hysteria has almost disappeared, but if there is an equivalent today it is ANorexia, the psychosomatic disorder of young, middle-class women who won't eat."
- A 1988 article from Harvard scientists still suggested that both illnesses were caused by female cultural stereotypes.
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