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Control of Eating Behavior Using a Novel Feedback System
Published on: May 8, 2018
[Healing the mind by healing the body in anorexia nervosa]
1Unité spécialisée dans les troubles du comportement alimentaire, Service du Pr Philip Gorwood, GHU Paris Psychiatrie et neurosciences, 1 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris, France.
Abstract:
In anorexia nervosa, physical and psychological vulnerability confines the sufferer to the confines of his or her pathology. The physical body is the first victim of undernutrition, but also the first resource for restoring the psychic and emotional body. Reduced food intake has repercussions on cognition and affect, all of which affect relational capacities. Accompanying, understanding and caring for people means reaching out to them and their bodies, to re-establish the link between what has been broken, and to establish a relationship of trust with them.
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