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TY - JOUR
T1 - What can the art of anorexic patients tell us about their internal world
T2 - a case study
AU - Acharya, Maddie
AU - Wood, Michele J.M.
AU - Robinson, Paul
PY - 1995/12/31
Y1 - 1995/12/31
N2 - Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which the patient's own image or artwork is the focus of interaction between the therapist and patient. This paper examines the artwork of a 27-year-old woman with a long history of anorexia nervosa with bulimic symptoms. During her in-patient treatment, she attended art therapy and body image therapy, where her ratings of her own body size were recorded. Various aspects of the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa including body image disturbance, depression and obsessive compulsive features are well illustrated here by the images produced during art therapy.
AB - Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which the patient's own image or artwork is the focus of interaction between the therapist and patient. This paper examines the artwork of a 27-year-old woman with a long history of anorexia nervosa with bulimic symptoms. During her in-patient treatment, she attended art therapy and body image therapy, where her ratings of her own body size were recorded. Various aspects of the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa including body image disturbance, depression and obsessive compulsive features are well illustrated here by the images produced during art therapy.
UR - https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/39375a0f-fd1e-434a-9402-7ff1b1bd6618
U2 - 10.1002/erv.2400030406
DO - 10.1002/erv.2400030406
M3 - Journal article
VL - 3
SP - 242
EP - 254
JO - EUROPEAN EATING DISORDERS REVIEW
JF - EUROPEAN EATING DISORDERS REVIEW
IS - 4
ER -