title: Anorexia and bulimia: treatment of the unconscious and psychotropic drugs. Desire to get cured or cure of desire.
abstract: The burden of productivity, together with haste and the impossibility of making pain subjective often lead to an urgent need for psychotropic drugs. Analytical treatment designed to transform the desire to get cured into a cure of desire should not relinquish style, which basically consists of waiting (but as distinct from any directive or wait-and-see position). This is characteristic of a practice which not only combats the patient's radical resistance to change, but above all the need for suffering and illness. This paper compares pyschoanalysis and drug therapy. Elaboration of a clinical fragment of anorexia as part of a double treatment is also illustrated.
authors.affiliation: Fondation Européenne pour la Psychanalyse. gabriellardm@infinito.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ripa di Meana
mesh_terms: D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs