title: Selves that starve and suffocate: the continuum of eating disorders and dissociative phenomena.
abstract: Recent reports suggest a link between eating disorders and dissociative phenomena. The author offers a psychodynamic perspective on this connection and proposes that these disorders may occur along a continuum. Viewing these conditions as related suggests that eating disorders, like dissociative disorders, may have not only self-destructive but also self-preserving aspects. The author explores treatment implications of this perspective.
authors.affiliation: Adult Outpatient Department, Menninger Clinic, Topeka, KS 66601-0829.
authors.forename: K J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Zebre
mesh_terms: D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D004532:Ego; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011613:Psychotherapy