title: Sexual abuse and eating disorders: clinical cases.
abstract: The aim of this analysis of five clinical cases is to show how an experience of sexual abuse can contribute towards increasing individual vulnerability and become one of several factors that come together to aggravate and complicate the symptoms characterising eating disorders. It is also intended to enhance the importance of a "multifactorial" model for approaching this kind of psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Dipartmento di Psicologia, Università Cattolica, Milano, Italy. molinari@auxologico.it
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molinari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Selvini
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lenzini
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005195:Family Relations; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010551:Personality; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012742:Sex Offenses / Q000523:psychology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior