The troubled self in women with severe eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) - A study using interviews, self-reports, and percept-genetic methods

Citation
P. Johnsson et al., The troubled self in women with severe eating disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa) - A study using interviews, self-reports, and percept-genetic methods, NORD J PSY, 55(5), 2001, pp. 343-349
Citations number
33
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry
Journal title
NORDIC JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
ISSN journal
08039488 → ACNP
Volume
55
Issue
5
Year of publication
2001
Pages
343 - 349
Database
ISI
SICI code
0803-9488(2001)55:5<343:TTSIWW>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
Fifteen anorectic (A) and 13 bulimic (B) patients aged 20-49 years, all ser iously ill, and 21 controls were studied, using a half-structured interview , the Tennessee Self Concept Scale, the tachistoscopic Identity Test (IT), and two other percept-genetic tests. The differences between A and B were n ot particularly pronounced, A patients being on the whole more sensitive an d self-directed, and B patients more depressive and object-directed. The IT differentiated between patients and controls very powerfully with regard t o alexithymia. A type of response in that test, emphasizing the eyes, was s een as a search for guidance. Descriptions of mother were generally negativ e.