ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Is Anorexia Nervosa a Disorder of the Self? A Psychological Approach.
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- Psychological Effects of Nasogastric Tube (NGT) in Patients with Anorexia Nervosa: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Sense of agency and its disturbances: A systematic review targeting the intentional binding effect in neuropsychiatric disorders.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2024Pooled it
- Phonological working memory is adversely affected in adults with anorexia nervosa: a systematic literature review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- When do anorexic patients perceive their body as too fat? Aggravating and ameliorating factors.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Physical and Psychological Effects of Nasogastric Tube (NGT) Use in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa: An Exploratory Study.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Transgressive eroticism and the making and unmaking of the self beyond the object body.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Review
- Parents of Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa and Parents of Adult Women with Anorexia Nervosa.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Impairments in personality functioning in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Article
- Parent-daughter emotional dyssynchrony correlates with personality and psychopathology in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- A key system response of diametric space as a paradigm for understanding the phenomenology of anorexia nervosa.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Self /other recognition and distinction in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: A pilot study using a double mirror paradigm.PloS one · 2025Article
- The correlates of appearance focused self-concept: personality traits, self-concept, sociocultural, and early life experience factors.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- An Overview of the Bodily Awareness Representation and Interoception: Insights and Progress in the Field of Neurorehabilitation Research.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Identity Functioning in Patients with an Eating Disorder: Developmental Trajectories throughout Treatment.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Anorexia nervosa through the lens of a severe and enduring experience: 'lost in a big world'.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Comparison among anorexia nervosa adolescents with or without previous overweight, obese, and healthy adolescents.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in young women affected with anorexia nervosa, and their relationship with personality, psychopathology, and attachment style.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Disturbed families or families disturbed: a reconsideration.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Review
- Anomalous self-experience, body image disturbance, and eating disorder symptomatology in first-onset anorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
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Abstract
The debate concerning the pathogenesis and the maintaining factors of eating disorders, anorexia nervosa in particular, is ongoing especially since therapeutic interventions do not result in satisfactory and enduring rates of remission. This paper presents a model for the pathogenesis of eating disorders, based on the hypothesis of a deficiency in the development of the self. We present the theory in light of new evidence concerning the role of attachment insecurity in the development and maintenance of eating disorders. In particular, we define the self in eating disorders in a comprehensive way by taking into account recent evidence from experimental psychology and neurobiology. The paper considers the development of the self in terms of its synchronic (i.e., experienced in the moment) and diachronic (i.e., experienced as continuous over time) aspects. Both synchronic and diachronic aspects of the self are relevant to the expression of eating disorder symptoms. Further, the maturation of the self is interwoven with the development of attachment functioning from infancy to adolescence. This interplay between these developmental processes of the self and of attachment could be crucial in understanding the pathogenesis of eating disorders. The final part of the paper suggests a neurobiological link between the theory of the self in the eating disorders and the spatiotemporal functioning of the brain. Disturbances in spatiotemporal functioning may represent the neurobiological pathway by which deficiencies in the self is related to attachment functions in individuals with eating disorders.
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