Improving interoception and self-disgust in the treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa.

Improving interoception and self-disgust in the treatment of patients with anorexia nervosa. Encephale. 2020 Nov 11;: Authors: Bou Khalil R, Kassab A, Richa S Abstract Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a mental disorder in which sufficient evidence points towards the presence of a high level of disturbed interoception and self-disgust. High arousal mood induction is a therapeutic technique that helps improve a patient's interoceptive capacities. With some adjustments to this technique such as adding a challenging behavior that induces a "flow" state or a mindfulness component such as in mindful awareness in body-oriented therapy (MABT), it is expected that patients with AN may benefit from an integrative treatment strategy that helps them improve their symptoms of high self-disgust and low interoception. PMID: 33189348 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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