Secondly, the current available documentary sources regarding this case are critically discussed because they may have been biased as they date back to 600 years ago and some of them were written to exalt the figure of this saint. Finally, we examine whether the case of Saint Catherine could have been an anorexia nervosa case or not, or whether she might have suffered from another psychological disorder that included some eating behaviour problems.
En segundo lugar se comentan críticamente las fuentes documentales disponibles en la actualidad respecto a dicho caso, dado que se intuye que pueden estar sesgadas, pues datan de hace 600 años y algunos de ellos se escribieron para ensalzar la figura de la santa.