title: [Anhedonia and emotional awareness: facts and perspectives in eating disorders].
abstract: According to clinical reports, patients with eating disorders (EDs) are unable to differentiate and regulate emotional states. They are hypothesized alexithymic and lacking of emotional awareness. We investigate EDs capacity to experiment pleasure and levels of emotional awareness, in a comparative study. As expected, EDs show a global deficit of emotional functioning, with inability to identify and describe their own emotions, as well as an impairment in mentalising others' emotional experience, and an anhedonia. No relations between the duration of illness and the emotional dimensions were found. This trouble in regulation of emotions either follows the eating disorder and constitutes a lasting sequel, or appears to be a personality trait
authors.affiliation: Service de Psychologie Clinique et Psychiatrie de Liaison, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, 20, rue Leblanc, 75908 Paris Cedex 15. sarah.bydlowski@hop.egp.ap-hop-paris.fr
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bydlowski
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Corcos
authors.forename: Silla M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Consoli
authors.forename: Sabrina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Paterniti
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Laurier
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chambry
authors.forename: Gwenolé
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Loas
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jeammet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans