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Episode 29: The Anorexic Dynamic. Or: Why eating disorders are not about the food

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Anorexic Disorders and Family Structures

Anorexic disorders also arise from complex family dynamics. In which explicit traumatic events are not always to be found. Not infrequently, the family atmosphere is in fact described as very harmonious. The difference between a functioning and a non-functioning family structure may, in many cases, not be so significant. Once someone in the family has developed it, it takes on a power of its own. It can even spread far beyond it into therapeutic or clinical settings.

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