[Interpersonal relation pattern in families with a bulimic member- interaction analysis].
Basic hypotheses concerning the interaction in families of bulimic patients are tested. Family therapy sessions of 20 female patients of an outpatient therapy unit for eating-disorders were coded with a micro-analytic instrument (Göttinger Familieninteraktions-Skalen) and analysed. The siblings relationships were systematically included in the study. The parental dyad turned out to be significantly more conflictual than the other dyads were. In the relationship between the patient and the parents a relatively stable pattern of interactional behaviour was found. The relationship between mother and bulimic daughter was more conflictual than that between father and daughter. The father-sibling-dyad was not significantly more conflictual than the father-patient-dyad. Especially the impact of sibling relationships on the family interaction of bulimic patients needs further elucidation.
Stasch
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Abteilung für Psychosomatische Kooperationsforschung und Familientherapie, Universität, Heidelberg.
Reich
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D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002032:Bulimia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D005195:Family Relations; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012801:Sibling Relations