Open AccessDissociazione e alessitimia in un campione di pazienti con Disturbo del Comportamento Alimentare
Author(s) -
Marco La Marra,
Walter Sapuppo,
Giorgio Caviglia
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
research in psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2499-7552
pISSN - 2239-8031
DOI - 10.4081/ripppo.2009.1
Subject(s) - bulimia nervosa , psychology , eating disorders , dissociative , anorexia nervosa , alexithymia , clinical psychology , binge eating disorder , anorexia , psychiatry , dissociative experiences scale , medicine , cognition , schizotypy
The aim of this study has been to investigate the dissociative phenomena and the difficulties related to perceive, understand and describe the proper ones and other people's emotional states in a sample of 53 patients with Eating Disorders. The recruited sample is made by 14 Anorexia Nervosa (AN) patients, 15 with Bulimia Nervosa (BN), 12 with Eating Disorder Non Otherwise Specified (EDNOS) and 12 with Binge Eating Disorder (BED). To all subjects was administred the Eating Disorder Inventory-2, the Dissociative Experiences Scale and the Scala Alessitimica Romana. In according with literature, we confirme the relationships among Eating Disorders, the dissociative phenomena and Alexithymia.