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

Summary, in English

Fifteen anorectic (A) and 13 bulimic (B) patients aged 20-49 years, all seriously 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 not particularly pronounced, A patients being on the whole more sensitive and self-directed, and B patients more depressive and object-directed. The IT differentiated between patients and controls very powerfully with regard to alexithymia. A type of response in that test, emphasizing the eyes, was seen as a search for guidance. Descriptions of mother were generally negative.

• Author: Per Johnsson; Gudmund Smith; Gunilla Amnér
• Department/s: Department of Psychology; Division for Higher Education Development
• Publishing year: 2001
• Language: English
• Pages: 9-343
• Publication/Series: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 5
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11839126&dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/080394801317080855
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Informa Healthcare
• Topic: Psychiatry
• Keywords: Anorexia Nervosa : psychology; Bulimia : psychology; Comparative Study; Defense Mechanisms; Female; Human; Internal-External Control; Interview; Psychological : methods; Middle Age; Reproducibility of Results; Questionnaires; Bulimia : complications; Adult; Affective Symptoms : psychology; Affective Symptoms : complications; Anorexia Nervosa : complications; Self Concept
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1502-4725