Assessment of ego state in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa

To clarify the effects of ego states on anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia n ervosa (BN), the questionnaire of the Tokyo University Egogram (TEG) with c ritical parent, nurturing parent, adult, free child and adapted child scale s was administered to 32 female AN patients aged 14 to 32 years (mean age 2 0 years) and 49 female BN patients aged 14 to 33 years (mean age 23 years). The scores on the critical parent and adapted child scales for AN were sig nificantly lower than those for BN, A multiple logistic regression analysis including all of the TEG scales, age, duration of illness and education sh owed that the adapted child scale significantly discriminated between AN an d BN. The adaptive ego state is suggested for differentiating between the t wo disorders.