Relevance of obsessive-compulsive psychopathology in anorexia nervosa: a brief narrative review

It has been suggested that anorexia nervosa (AN) may be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). There is also the idea that certain obsessive personality traits are frequent in patients with AN. In this paper we aimed to organize the literature concerning the nature of the relationship between AN and obsessive pathology, both as OCD and as obsessive personality traits and to suggest new research topics in the future, as well as pointing the main methodological difficulties in previous studies.