Restricter anorexia nervosa in a thirteen-year-old sheltered Muslim girl raised in Lahore, Pakistan: developmental similarities to westernized patients.

An academically perfectionistic and interpersonally compliant 13-year-old girl raised in a traditional, sheltering Muslim home in Lahore, Pakistan developed restricter anorexia nervosa in the context of being teased about her weight by her closest friend and younger brother, and in a context of family weight preoccupation. Similarities to current pathogenetic hypotheses among Western adolescents are discussed.