Conflict and solution oriented inpatient psychoanalytic therapy of patients with anorexia nervosa und bulimia nervosa

Patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa often benefit from psych oanalytic relationship-oriented treatment. After a demonstration of the pow er and positive possibilities of the psychoanalytic procedure, more detail is given of the limitations of this approach in view of the present state o f research. New concepts, such as salutogenesis, goal attainment, resource orientation and symptom and solution orientation require further developmen t of the psychoanalytic approach in the inpatient treatment of eating disor ders. A new model, "conflict and solution oriented inpatient psychoanalytic therapy" is described, and it is demonstrated how the integration of behav iour, solution and resource oriented approaches into a psychoanalytic conce pt can be realized by goal attainment.