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Title

Self-starvation : from individual to family therapy in the treatment of anorexia nervosa / Mara Selvini Palazzoli ; translated by Arnold Pomerans.

Author

Selvini Palazzoli, Mara

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, c1985.

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Additional Authors

Pomerans, Arnold

Description

xiv, 296 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Abstract: Neuropsychiatrics and endocrinologists have intensively studied anorexia nervosa in the past several decades. The chief feature of the disease is extreme thinness and severe weight loss. In general, laboratory findings are not specific for any organic disease, and most victims are extremely physically active. The contradictory roles of the modern woman have been said to influence the development of the disease. Psychological analysis of these patients cannot be done without a complete family history, for personality and home environment play intricate roles in the development of anorexia nervosa.

Subject

• Anorexia Nervosa
• Anorexia nervosa

Note

• Translated from Italian.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [253]-289.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Historical survey -- Clinical aspects -- General picture of anorexia nervosa -- Term "anorexia nervosa" -- Differential diagnosis of anorexia nervosa -- Anorexia nervosa and the contradictory roles of modern woman -- Parents of anorexic patients -- Learning patterns and body awareness -- Development of anorexia nervosa -- Anorexia nervosa and sex -- Problem of death and suicide in anorexia nervosa -- Interpretation of anorexia nervosa by the object-relation theory -- Organic treatment of anorexia nervosa -- Introduction to the psychotherapeutic treatment of anorexia nervosa -- Therapist and the parents.
• Difficulties during the first meeting with patients -- Some hints on psychotherapeutic conduct -- Existentialist contribution to the treatment of anorexia nervosa -- Experience of space and time in anorexia nervosa -- Condemnation and redemption of the body -- Reconstruction of body feeling -- Reflections on my own case studies -- Family psychotherapy as a new orientation -- Family of the anorexic patient: a model system -- Use of therapeutic interventions -- Cybernetics of anorexia nervosa -- Family of the anorexic and the social environment.

ISBN

0876687575

LCCN

^^^84045722^

OCLC

11927313

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library