Psvchotheraw and bulimia nervosa: eviluation and long‐term follow‐up of two conflict‐orientated treatment conditions

Abstract

Analytic in-patient therapy (n = 32) and systemic out-patient therapy (n = 39) were applied to patients with bulimia nervosa, and the effects were evaluated 14, 26 and 38 months after the start of the treatments. Our assumptions about the general efficacy of both conflict-orientated techniques were confirmed: both therapies satisfactorily reduced the symptomatic behaviour, as well as secondary factors related to bulimia nervosa, in the long term. However, we could not identify differential effects of the two treatment regimes, which we had expected with regard to the very different therapeutic approaches. The similarities of outcome of both therapies predominate, with slightly better results in the case of the analytic in-patient treatment. The results are discussed with regard to the assumption that specific healing factors are involved in conflict-orientated treatments in addition to the "common factors' of psychotherapy.

FPI profiles in a European sample of 1068 female patients suffering from anorexia or bulimia nervosa

“…All the patients had a high score for inhibition, confirming Jaeger's results (Jaeger et al, 1996) for the anorexics. In contrast, he found similar scores for bulimics and controls.…”

“…In the context of the present study we are collecting FPI-R data at follow-up (2.5 years after entry into the 208 C. Massoubre et al study) and it will be interesting to determine whether personality traits persist or improve after treatment. Jaeger (Jaeger et al, 1996) showed with a small sample significant improvements after psychotherapy in four scales: life satisfaction, inhibition, extraversion and emotionality.…”

“…The scales social orientation, aggressiveness, health concerns and emotionality differentiated between subgroups of bulimic patients (Liedtke, Jäger, Kü nsebeck, Buhl, & Kersting, 1990). Moreover, significant improvements for the scales life satisfaction, inhibition, extraversion and emotionality as an effect of inpatient or outpatient psychotherapy were found (Jaeger et al, 1996).…”

Dropout from Brief Psychotherapy within a Combination Treatment in Bulimia nervosa: Role of Personality and Anger

“…Some authors report the usefulness of interpersonal therapy [1, 9], others of psychodynamic psychotherapies [10, 11, 12]. …”

Psychotherapy: from exorcism to cognitive theories

“…The literature has systematically indicated the propriety of applying psychotherapy in acute depressive states (Weissman et al, 1979) to maintain the benefits of the treatment (Weissman, 1994), and in combination with pharmacological treatment (Conti et al, 1986). Conclusions similar to those expressed in these articles are also present when other psychiatric pathologies are studied, such as anxiety disorder (Barlow & Lehman, 1996), drug addiction (Crits-Cristoph, 1996), and eating disorders (Jaeger et al, 1996). Texts which use meta-analytic statistical techniques arrive at conclusions that also clearly and consistently state that psychotherapies do have a therapeutic effect (Lipsey & Wilson, 1993;Shapiro & Shapiro, 1982;Crits-Cristoph, 1992).…”