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The Body Owning Process in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa
Author(s) -
Ushijima Sadanobu
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1987.tb00402.x
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , girl , psychology , anorexia , developmental psychology , projective identification , projective test , psychotherapist , eating disorders , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , medicine , psychoanalytic theory , pathology
After pointing out that over anorexia nervosa too much attention focused on the severity of developmental pahology in infancy and on current family problemsseem to blur the developmental perspectives in adolescence, the author examined the course of treatment of an anorexia nervosa patient, a 17‐year‐old senior high school girl. He showed that with the development of object‐relationships, there occurred a disturbance inthe sense of body‐ownership: the lower half of the body felt fatty, some change occurred that could not be put into words, and a flesh‐mantle was seen in a homosexual partner. Itwas emphasized that the projective cross‐identification (the author's term) played an important role in this process.