Static and dynamic body image in bulimia nervosa: Mental representation of body dimensions and biological motion patterns

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silja Vocks ◽  
Tanja Legenbauer ◽  
Heinz Rüddel ◽  
Nikolaus F. Troje
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Biological Motion ◽  
Body Dimensions ◽  
Motion Patterns

Étude De La Fantasmatique De Patients Soumis À La Greffe Renale

1972 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. Crombez ◽  
P. Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Renal Transplantation ◽  
Clinical Outcome ◽  
Clinical Significance ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Excretory Organ ◽  
Complex Phenomena ◽  
The Impact

This paper is part of an ongoing study of the psychiatric aspects of renal transplantation at Notre-Dame Hospital in Montreal, and deals specifically with the clinical significance of the patient's fantasies concerning the acquisition of a kidney. Fantasy material concerning the issues of life and death, the fantasies linking the acquired organ to libidinal drives and those concerning the impact of transplantation upon body image are examined. Patients defend against anxieties concerning living and dying by denial. Fantasies are described which suggest that transplantation is experienced on the genital level as a rephallicisation of doubtful outcome, following the castrative effect of the illness and hemodialysis. It was confirmed also that the archaic mental representation of the kidney was far more encompassing than that of a mere excretory organ, and thus the vicissitudes of the process of acceptance of the grafted body part appear as very complex phenomena which can have a bearing on clinical outcome.

scholarly journals Eighteen-year trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with a lifetime eating disorder: findings from the ALSPAC cohort

2019 ◽  
Vol 216 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wei Chua ◽  
Gemma Lewis ◽  
Abigail Easter ◽  
Glyn Lewis ◽  
Francesca Solmi
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Growth Curves ◽  
Sensitivity Analyses ◽  
Continuous Measure ◽  
In Pregnancy

BackgroundTwo longitudinal studies have shown that depressive symptoms in women with eating disorders might improve in the antenatal and early postnatal periods. No study has followed up women beyond 8 months postnatal.AimsTo investigate long-term trajectories of depressive symptoms in mothers with lifetime self-reported eating disorders.MethodUsing data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and multilevel growth curves we modelled trajectories of depressive symptoms from the 18th week of pregnancy to 18 years postnatal in women with lifetime self-reported anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa or both anorexia and bulimia nervosa. As sensitivity analyses we also investigated these trajectories using quintiles of a continuous measure of body image in pregnancy.ResultsOf the 9276 women in our main sample, 126 (1.4%) reported a lifetime diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, 153 (1.6%) of bulimia nervosa and 60 (0.6%) of both anorexia and bulimia nervosa. Women with lifetime eating disorders had greater depressive symptoms scores than women with no eating disorders, before and after adjustment for confounders (anorexia nervosa: 2.10, 95% CI 1.36–2.83; bulimia nervosa: 2.28, 95% CI: 1.61–2.94, both anorexia and bulimia nervosa: 2.86, 95% CI 1.81–3.90). We also observed a dose–response association between greater body image and eating concerns in pregnancy and more severe trajectories of depressive symptoms, even after adjusting for lifetime eating disorders which also remained independently associated with greater depressive symptoms.ConclusionsWomen with eating disorders experience persistently greater depressive symptoms across the life-course. More training for practitioners and midwives on how to recognise eating disorders in pregnancy could help to identify depressive symptoms and reduce the long-term burden of disease resulting from this comorbidity.

scholarly journals Brain responses to body image stimuli but not food are altered in women with bulimia nervosa

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederique Van den Eynde ◽  
Vincent Giampietro ◽  
Andrew Simmons ◽  
Rudolf Uher ◽  
Chris M Andrew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Bulimia Nervosa ◽  
Brain Responses
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