Volume 4 - Nº 1
- Editorial
- Interdisciplinaridade no ensino médico
- Da história de Maria à memória de um encontro
- Sivik Psychosomaticism test and test of Operational Style. Construct validity: relationship with a Swedish Mood Adjective Check List – MACL
- Vision-targeted quality of life under different degrees of visual impairment
- The psychoanalytic voyage of a breast-cancer patient
- Emotional inhibition and physical health: fact or fiction?
- Attachment representation and affect regulation. Current findings of attachment research and their relevance for psychosomatic medicine
- response to Dr. Elizabeth Loftus' presentation on false memories and false beliefs – with particular reference to her study on dream interpretation
- The psychological interpretation of clinical pathology in pregnancy: a continuity hypothesis
- Psychological variables in pregnancy: does age matter? An exploratory study
- Application of narrative therapy to anorexia nervosa: a study case
- Evaluation of psychoneuroimmunological interactions in HIV infected patients
- Knowing the amygdala: its contribution to psychiatric disorders
- Recensão de Livros
- Publicações Recebidas na Redacção
- Reuniões Científicas • Calendário
Application of narrative therapy to anorexia nervosa: a study case
Sandra Torres, Marina Prista Guerra
In this article the psychological intervention undertaken with a teenage girl with Anorexia Nervosa diagnosis is described. The intervention was based on the Re-authoring Model by White and Epson and focused the analysis of the "fear of becoming fat" as being the most disturbing one identified by the teenager. Three essential dimensions were emphasized in the therapeutic process of the anorexica: (a) the externalizing language; (b) the discursive context of the problem; and (c) the identification and amplification of moments of active resistance to anorexia nervosa. The continuous and contextual assessment suggests the importance of the construction and projection of alternative narratives, that is, more flexible narratives adapted to new contexts for the resolution of the body related fears and, consequently, for the anorexic’s better functional life.
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