title: Anorexia nervosa reconceptualized from a psychosocial transactional perspective.
abstract: Anorexia nervosa is conceptualized as a number of very different instrumental actions that occur within particular family contexts. Six psychosocial transactional patterns--negativistic, attention centering, distracting, childlike, attractive, and self-punishing--are identified. This psychosocial transactional perspective is proposed as an alternative to approaches that focus on the "psychopathology" of young female anorexics.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marcus
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wiener
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological