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Description of eating-disordered, psychiatric, and normal women along cognitive and psychodynamic dimensions

✍ Scribed by Steiger, Howard ;Goldstein, Cathy ;Mongrain, Myriam ;Van der Feen, Julie

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
845 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0276-3478

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✦ Synopsis

To evaluate various psychological constructs used in formulations of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, w e compared 76 eating-disordered, 20 psychiatric, and 24 normal women on measures of irrational cognitions, object-relations disturbances, and defense styles. The eating-disordered groups exhibited more disturbance on all measures than normals and many pathological elevations relative to psychiatric controls. Despite these differences, common qualitative features were identified in all patient groups, suggesting that formulations based on the factors examined alone, while useful in providing an understanding of patients' issues, will be inadequate to account for eating-disorder development.

Current formulations of the eating disorders (EDs) anorexia and bulimia nervosa consider the interaction of multiple biological, psychological, and social determining factors . A variety of psychological constructs have been invoked in such formulations,

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