Self-starvation: From Individual to Family Therapy in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa

adolescence aggression amenorrhoea Anna Freud anorexia nervosa patients anorexic patients Anorexie mentale anterior pituitary appetite attitude become behaviour body bulimia cachexia cathexis child chronic clinical communication condition cure daughter defence depression disease disturbances dream Ellen West emaciation Emilia emotional Endocrinology existential analysis experience express extremely fact family therapy father fear feel felt function girl hand hence hospital hunger hypopituitarism illness intake interaction interpersonal relationship intervention interviews L'anorexie Liliana look méd Moreover mother needs neurotic never normal obesity observed oral organic parents particular pathological person phase physical pituitary positive precisely problem psychiatric psycho psychoanalytic psychological psychotherapeutic psychotherapy puberty R. D. Laing reactions realize refusal rejection result ritual role schizophrenic sensations sense sessions sexual Simmonds sister social stimuli suddenly suffering super-ego symptoms syndrome therapeutic therapist told treated treatment true anorexia nervosa vomiting weight women