Talk:Psychogenic dwarfism

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[edit] Inappropriate weight?

The article mentions, "weight that is inappropriate for the height"; does anyone know if this means too little weight, too much, or either? Dan 02:53, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Most likely too little.

"J.M. Barrie is a famous case" - does this mean that he suffered from it - no mention on his bio page; or that Peter Pan did? Peter Pan is not a good example since he's fictional.

See http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Munoz.html

An example in literature would be Oskar Matzerath, leading character from "The Tin Drum", by Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass.

[edit] Souces

I added a *secondary* source for the orphanage case:

Sapolsky, Robert M. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998

I don't have the book myself, and cant find the primary source of that particular comparison (it may not have been written up in a medical journal) on PubMed. I did find this - a study of orphans in Eritrea

Wolff PH, Fesseha G.
"The orphans of Eritrea: a five-year follow-up study."
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1999 Nov;40(8):1231-7.
PMID: 10604401 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=10604401&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.9.143.45 (talk) 16:12, 3 September 2007 (UTC)