Emotion Coupling and Regulation in Anorexia Nervosa.

DISCUSSION: The significance of these results was considered in the light of the new Schematic, Propositional, Analogical and Associative Representation Systems in eating disorders model. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. KEY PRACTITIONER MESSAGE: Emotions and emotion processing are problematic for people with anorexia nervosa. Overestimation in body size for people with anorexia nervosa may be due to the coupling of anger and disgust. Clinicians need to consider the importance of automatic cognitive routes of emotion elicitation that may maintain certain eating disorder symptoms, such as poor body image. PMID: 23166105 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Clin Psychol Psychother Source Type: research