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The work starts from an experience of conducting a homogeneous group with eating disorders with the variant of the insertion of a male subject in a group of women.
The therapeutic factors of group dynamics and emotional growth of patients and therapists were Read more
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Looking at cases of adolescents and young women, the author describes psychoanalytic treatments for eating disorders. The article describes fundamental elements of the treatment, including: the structure of the interdisciplinary group of care (psychoanalyst, endocrinologist, nutritionist) and the role of parental involvement. Therapy focuses on the reconstruction of Precursors of the Ego (self-containment and reflective skills). A crucial step is the ability for patients to enter into mental conflict in the therapeutic relationship and with the family, since Read more
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The purpose of this article is to present an etiopathogenetic hypothesis of eating disorders (DCA) during adolescence, from the theoretical model of Self Psychology and clinical experience gained in the field. According to this hypothesis, a particular structural deficit of the Self and familial relations lay the groundwork that structures an eating disorder, in a Read more
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This article aims to describe the experience of conducting a psychotherapy group for parents of patients affected by eating disorders, took place in the General Hospital Sant’Orsola, in Bologna (Italy). The first part describes a theoretical analysis of the dynamics of families of patients who are affected by eating disorders. The second part describes sessions that show the special clinical dimension and therapeutic factors that characterize Read more
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What emerges then is a self that is incomplete or vulnerable, or a self that has either not developed its own functions and objects or has only been to able to do it both by sacrificing, cutting off and isolating the self that is capable of learning from mental pain and by distancing itself from all those objects, including the body, that can instigate that learning experience. For anorexic and bulimic patients, the homogeneous group as Self-Object offers a self-recognition and affective regulation experience that lays the foundations for a process of self-exploration which would otherwise be impossible in people whose very sense of existence feels threatened. If the patients can see the subjective form of their affective life reflected by others as something shared and therefore meaningful, human, open to communication and hence to Read more
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I’ll try to connect some of the bionian ideas about individual-group relationship to the specific manifestations of eating disorders, with regards to the fact that some of these remarks could be valid also for different pathologies. The aim of this paper is not so much to propose alternative aetiological explanations, as to stress the possibility of bringing group elements back to the individual dynamic. Though the most direct implications seem be addressed to group therapy, the stimulation is rather referred to a quality of analytic listening, in other words to a mental Read more