Bloodletting, Bulimia Nervosa and Borderline Personality Disorder
Fiona Warren 1*, Bridget Dolan 2 and Kingsley Norton 1,2 1 Henderson Hospital, 2 Homeland Drive, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5LT, 2 St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, SW17 0RE Some recent case�reports in the psychiatric literature have presented patients who bloodlet and suggested that theirs is a rare pathological behaviour which is part of the purgative psychopathology associated with bulimia nervosa. Other reports have con� strued bloodletting as a self�mutilative behaviour and indicative of severe personality disorder. We…