Persistence of Friendly and Submissive Interpersonal Styles Among Those with Binge-Eating Disorder: Comparisons with Matched Controls and Outcomes After Group Therapy.

Persistence of Friendly and Submissive Interpersonal Styles Among Those with Binge-Eating Disorder: Comparisons with Matched Controls and Outcomes After Group Therapy. Clin Psychol Psychother. 2019 Jun 20;: Authors: Brugnera A, Carlucci S, Compare A, Tasca GA Abstract Interpersonal problems play a prominent role in the development of binge-eating disorder (BED), so that reducing their intensity may be a key focus of many psychological interventions. In recent years, several interpersonal treatments for BED were developed, which posit that binge-eating arises to manage relational problems. However, few studies have evaluated the prototypical interpersonal problems, and no studies evaluated the longitudinal changes in interpersonal functioning after treatment within this population. We investigated the severity and prototypicality of interpersonal problems of 101 overweight women with BED from pre-Group Psychodynamic-Interpersonal Psychotherapy (GPIP) to 12 months post-GPIP. At baseline, we compared patients' interpersonal problems with two groups of matched controls (46 overweight and 49 normal weight women without a diagnosis of BED), and examined circular correlations between relational problems, depressive symptoms and binge-eating frequency. Results showed that participants with BED had significantly higher levels of interpersonal problems compared to the matched control samples, with predominantly non-assertive and exploitable st...
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research