WHAT CAN THE ART OF ANOREXIC PATIENTS TELL US ABOUT THEIR INTERNAL WORLD - A CASE-STUDY

Art therapy is a from of psychotherapy in which the patient's own imag e or artwork is the focus of interaction between the therapist and pat ient. This paper examines the artwork of a 27-year-old woman with a lo ng history of anorexia nervosa with bulimic symptoms. During her in-pa tient treatment, she attended art therapy and body image therapy, wher e her ratings of her own body size were recorded. Various aspects of t he psychopathology of anorexia nervosa including body image disturbanc e, depression and obsessive compulsive features are well illustrated h ere by the images produced during art therapy.