The present review investigates the complex associations between children's affective
states, body perceptions, and eating habits, thus providing crucial insights for potential …

Cognitive, psychodynamic, and phenomenological scholars converged their attention on
abnormal bodily phenomena as the core psychopathological feature of eating disorders …

In this article, we propose a developmental trauma model of psychopathology, grounded in
convergent findings in psychoanalytic, developmental, and affective neuroscience research …

Aim: Research has extensively examined the relationship between defense mechanisms
(DM) and personality traits. However, no study to date has explored if specific defenses …

The debate concerning the pathogenesis and the maintaining factors of eating disorders,
anorexia nervosa in particular, is ongoing especially since therapeutic interventions do not …

Attachment styles are critical to the organization and representation of self and for regulating
emotions. 209students between the ages of 19 and 24 completed three self-report measures …

Purpose Atheoretical and descriptive conceptualizations of eating disorders (EDs) have
faced substantial criticism due to their limited ability to assess patients' subjective …

Background: Extensive research has demonstrated the positive associations among the
exposure to traumatic experiences, the levels of dissociation, and the severity of psychiatric …

Deliberate self-harm (DSH) in young people is a clinical and social problem related to early
maltreatment but with little specificity in type of care or abuse determined. A community …

Objective The overvaluation of body shape and weight of persons with eating disorders
(EDs) is putatively explained by a disturbance in the way they experience their own body …