PSYCH 297R Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: The Way Forward, Defence Mechanisms, Psychosexual Development
6 Dec 2020
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Part 3: the way forward: research and treatment. Chapter 8: psychodiagnosis and research methodologies for eating. In the twentieth century, researchers leaned towards psychosexual development theories such as freud"s oral stage. Suggests that people have a basix inner drive to form relationships, and the failure to form successful early relationships creates difficulty later in life. 1973 research stated that anorexia was a consequence of this not a cause. Such testing has been based on two different types of tests. The an individual typically expresses a disturbed sense of reality, impairment of ego functioning, ineffective ego defenses (or coping mechanisms), and poorly managed affect and thinking disturbances. Given these findings, treatment turned to focus on efforts to repair ego functioning. Psychoanalytic therapies have not been particularly successful with eating disordered patients in part because this form of therapy relies on an individual"s motivation and interpretation of events, which are often compromised features of individuals with eating disorders.
