Who Was the Girl Who Stopped Eating? The Tragic Case of Ellen West
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In 1921, Ellen West, a pseudonym for a patient with a severe eating disorder and depression, committed suicide shortly after being released from a Swiss sanatorium. Her case, chronicled by psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger, became a landmark study in existential analysis, representing a tragic and complex answer to the question, 'who was the girl who stopped eating?'.
