Eating disorders and mentalization: two theoretical perspectives compared
Eating disorders are increasingly identifiable as a body metamorphosis to narrate discomfort. Their presence and incidence in modern and western society is increasing more and more, but they are starting to go beyond Culture Bound syndrome and they become real clinical puzzles that cannot be separated from individual psychic functioning, from the way of perceiving and identifying emotions, from the level and presence of alexithymic moments and from the planning of a hypertrophic super-ego (Recalcati, 2001).
The psychic functioning modality and the mentalization ability of subjects affected by DCA offer a clinical look that opens the way to different perspectives and modalities of therapeutic approach. DCAs are a pathology that must necessarily be addressed according to a multidisciplinary and bio-psycho-social approach. It is necessary to involve the family and look at the disturbance within the individual and his specific psychic functioning.
The seminar proposes the search for a dialogue between methodologies that has as its ultimate goal the well-being of the individual.
Dr. Arianna Sirolli - Dr. Daniele Manasse
The seminar will be held on Friday 2-10-2015, 15.00-18.00, at the headquarters of'IREP., Via Piave, 7 Rome.
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