title: Essential mental anorexia. Psychopathologic considerations and analysis of a case.
abstract: The AA. report the case of an anorexic girl, who could resume her evolutive process after an individual psychotherapy and parent's psychotherapy. In this way she could work out her defensive mechanisms and her EGO could internalize a previous menacing and persecutory maternal object.
authors.affiliation: Sezione Autonoma Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Dipartimento Materno-Infantile OO.RR., Foggia.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Marzocco
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Spina
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002032:Bulimia / Q000150:complications; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011613:Psychotherapy