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Description of eating‐disordered, psychiatric, and normal women along cognitive and psychodynamic dimensions
Author(s) -
Steiger Howard,
Goldstein Cathy,
Mongrain Myriam,
Van der Feen Julie
Publication year - 1990
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(199003)9:2<129::aid-eat2260090202>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - psychodynamics , anorexia nervosa , psychology , cognition , eating disorders , disordered eating , pathological , clinical psychology , bulimia nervosa , psychiatry , object relations theory , psychotherapist , medicine , psychoanalytic theory , pathology
To evaluate various psychological constructs used in formulations of anorexia and bulimia nervosa, we 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.