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Published on: May 10, 2022
[Anhedonia and emotional awareness: facts and perspectives in eating disorders]
Sarah Bydlowski1, Maurice Corcos, Silla M Consoli
1Service de Psychologie Clinique et Psychiatrie de Liaison, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris Cedex 15. sarah.bydlowski@hop.egp.ap-hop-paris.fr
Abstract:
According to clinical reports, patients with eating disorders (EDs) are unable to differentiate and regulate emotional states. They are hypothesized alexithymic and lacking of emotional awareness. We investigate EDs capacity to experiment pleasure and levels of emotional awareness, in a comparative study. As expected, EDs show a global deficit of emotional functioning, with inability to identify and describe their own emotions, as well as an impairment in mentalising others' emotional experience, and an anhedonia. No relations between the duration of illness and the emotional dimensions were found. This trouble in regulation of emotions either follows the eating disorder and constitutes a lasting sequel, or appears to be a personality trait
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