A Search of the Origins of Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescence. A New Treatment Approach

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder which affects particularly adolescents The media coverage of feminine thinness is demonstrated as a token of beauty with diet food as means to achieve this However diet foods are not enough to explain the numerous cases This disease is the symptom of a psychological disorder and research for the origin must follow up the psychotherapeutic treatment Multi factorial explanations seem dominate in the various case of this article Family problems and sexual assaults can also explain this transition to anorexia In the first case anorexia nervosa is used as a tool for identification and of personalization in the assumption of autonomy and independence In the second the anorexia becomes a means of defense in response to aggression We give a clinical confirmation of the multivariate origins of anorexia nervosa and of the impact of sexual abuse This paper proposes a new approach of the anorexia nervosa treatment