[Drug addiction, anorexia: what is the connection?].
Drug addictive and anorexic behaviours come from a same desire to reach an eventual autonomy. Drug addicts and anorexic people fight against dependency by instituting a new dependency, the one which ties them up to their behaviours; nevertheless this substitution from one dependency to another one does not happen by chance, it is chosen by these adolescents in order to allow them a possible structuring modification. These latter having difficulties to internalize "the father's law" in a certain way prepare the ground on which the law will become real by setting up a new alienating situation. In a way, drug addictive and anorexic behaviours carry out a "paternal metaphor" that is to say a metaphor which substitutes the "no of the father" to the place first symbolized by the operation of the mother's absence.
D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
Toxicomanie, anorexie: quels liens?