Anorexia nervosa reconceptualized from a psychosocial transactional perspective.
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.
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Department of Psychology, Clark University, Worcester, Mass.
Wiener
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D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D001828:Body Image; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological