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Personality disorders in anorexic patients
Author(s) -
Piran Niva,
Lerner Paul,
Garfinkel Paul E.,
Kennedy Sidney H.,
Brouillette Celine
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(198809)7:5<589::aid-eat2260070502>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , personality , psychiatry , eating disorders , anorexia , clinical psychology , personality disorders , bulimia nervosa , medical diagnosis , psychotherapist , medicine , psychoanalysis , pathology
This study was designed to compare personality disorders in restricting and bulimic anorexics. Thirty patients fulfilled DSM‐III criteria for anorexia nervosa and 38 patients fulfilled, in addition, DSM‐III criteria for bulimia. Patients were given Axis I and II, DSM‐III diagnoses. They were administered Gunderson's Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines, the MMPI, and the Childhood Events Questionnaire. We find from these different lines of evidence that both restricter and bulimic anorexics requiring hospital treatment equally display a major character pathology. However, there are characterological differences in that bulimics tend to discharge impulses and conflicts through action, similar to their family members.