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Basile, Barbara; Novello, Chiara; Calugi, Simona; Grave, Rccardo Dalle; Mancini, Francesco
Childhood Memories in Eating Disorders: An Explorative Study Using Diagnostic Imagery Journal Article
In: Eating Behavior, vol. 12, pp. 2890, 2021, ISSN: 1664-1078.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Anorexia Nervosa, bulimia nervosa, diagnostic imagery, Early maladaptive schemas, eating disorders, parental schemas, unmet core needs
@article{Basile2021,
title = {Childhood Memories in Eating Disorders: An Explorative Study Using Diagnostic Imagery},
author = {Barbara Basile and Chiara Novello and Simona Calugi and Rccardo Dalle Grave and Francesco Mancini},
editor = {Frontiers in Psychlogy},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-mancini-childhood.pdf},
doi = {10.3389/fpsyg.2021.685194},
issn = {1664-1078},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-07-22},
journal = {Eating Behavior},
volume = {12},
pages = {2890},
abstract = {components, the family environment and early parent–child interactions play a role in the development of eating disorders. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of early parent–daughter relationships in a sample of 49 female inpatients with an eating disorder. To acquire a detailed image description of the childhood experiences of the patient, we used diagnostic imagery, a schema therapy-derived experiential technique. This procedure allows exploring specific contents within the childhood memory (i.e., emotions and unmet core needs), bypassing rational control, commonly active during direct verbal questioning. Additionally, patients completed self-report measures to assess for eating disorder severity, general psychopathology, and individual and parental schemas pervasiveness. Finally, we explored possible differences in the diagnostic imagery content and self-report measures in two subgroups of patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The results showed that the most frequently reported unmet needs within the childhood memories of patients were those of safety/protection, care/nurturance, and emotional expression, referred specifically to the maternal figure. Overall, mothers were described as more abandoning, but at the same time particularly enmeshed in the relationship with their daughters. Conversely, patients perceived their fathers as more emotionally inhibited and neglecting. Imagery-based techniques might represent a powerful tool to explore the nature of early life experiences in eating disorders, allowing a more detailed case conceptualization and addressing intervention on early-life vulnerability aspects in disorder treatment.}
},
keywords = {Anorexia Nervosa, bulimia nervosa, diagnostic imagery, Early maladaptive schemas, eating disorders, parental schemas, unmet core needs},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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components, the family environment and early parent–child interactions play a role in the development of eating disorders. The aim of this study was to explore the nature of early parent–daughter relationships in a sample of 49 female inpatients with an eating disorder. To acquire a detailed image description of the childhood experiences of the patient, we used diagnostic imagery, a schema therapy-derived experiential technique. This procedure allows exploring specific contents within the childhood memory (i.e., emotions and unmet core needs), bypassing rational control, commonly active during direct verbal questioning. Additionally, patients completed self-report measures to assess for eating disorder severity, general psychopathology, and individual and parental schemas pervasiveness. Finally, we explored possible differences in the diagnostic imagery content and self-report measures in two subgroups of patients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The results showed that the most frequently reported unmet needs within the childhood memories of patients were those of safety/protection, care/nurturance, and emotional expression, referred specifically to the maternal figure. Overall, mothers were described as more abandoning, but at the same time particularly enmeshed in the relationship with their daughters. Conversely, patients perceived their fathers as more emotionally inhibited and neglecting. Imagery-based techniques might represent a powerful tool to explore the nature of early life experiences in eating disorders, allowing a more detailed case conceptualization and addressing intervention on early-life vulnerability aspects in disorder treatment.}
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Spitoni, Grazia Fernanda; Serino, Andrea; Cotugno, Armando; Mancini, Francesco; Antonucci, Gabriella; Pizzamiglio, Luigi
The two dimensions of the body representation in women suffering from Anorexia Nervosa Journal Article
In: Psychiatry Research, vol. 230, no 2, pp. 181-188, 2015, ISSN: 0165-1781.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tag: Affective touch, Anorexia Nervosa, Body discontent, Body representation, Somatoperception, Tactile discrimination
@article{Spitoni2015,
title = {The two dimensions of the body representation in women suffering from Anorexia Nervosa},
author = {Grazia Fernanda Spitoni and Andrea Serino and Armando Cotugno and Francesco Mancini and Gabriella Antonucci and Luigi Pizzamiglio},
editor = {Elsevier Ireland Ltd},
url = {https://apc.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/2015-the-two-dimension-of-the-body-rapresentation.pdf},
doi = {10.1016/j.psychres.2015.08.036},
issn = {0165-1781},
year = {2015},
date = {2015-08-28},
journal = {Psychiatry Research},
volume = {230},
number = {2},
pages = {181-188},
abstract = { A core symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe alteration of body representations. Evidence from somatoperception studies point to a generic disturbances of somatosensory components of body representations. Here we have investigated whether AN patients (N=18) and controls differed in the perception of tactile stimuli differently oriented along the body axes. We tested the hypothesis that patients perceive and represent their body selectively larger in only one dimension. To this aim we used elementary tactile measures for tactile acuity (Von Frey's test and two-point discrimination thresholds – 2 PD) and tactile discrimination measures. The rationale is based on the assumption that AN patients have a wider body representation, and that tactile body representation tasks (Tactile Distance task) oriented across the bodies (horizontally) are influenced by distorted body representations compared with tactile stimuli oriented along the bodies (vertically) which should not be influenced by body representations. Results showed that patients judged horizontal tactile stimuli significantly wider than the same stimuli oriented vertically.These results suggest that human brain perceives things differently based on body representations and that the beliefs concerning body size influence the specific somatosensory process of tactile experience.},
keywords = {Affective touch, Anorexia Nervosa, Body discontent, Body representation, Somatoperception, Tactile discrimination},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
A core symptom of Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a severe alteration of body representations. Evidence from somatoperception studies point to a generic disturbances of somatosensory components of body representations. Here we have investigated whether AN patients (N=18) and controls differed in the perception of tactile stimuli differently oriented along the body axes. We tested the hypothesis that patients perceive and represent their body selectively larger in only one dimension. To this aim we used elementary tactile measures for tactile acuity (Von Frey's test and two-point discrimination thresholds – 2 PD) and tactile discrimination measures. The rationale is based on the assumption that AN patients have a wider body representation, and that tactile body representation tasks (Tactile Distance task) oriented across the bodies (horizontally) are influenced by distorted body representations compared with tactile stimuli oriented along the bodies (vertically) which should not be influenced by body representations. Results showed that patients judged horizontal tactile stimuli significantly wider than the same stimuli oriented vertically.These results suggest that human brain perceives things differently based on body representations and that the beliefs concerning body size influence the specific somatosensory process of tactile experience.