“…Moreover, although experiencing similar levels of negative feelings as controls, patients with AN may tend to avoid negative affect, or may try to regulate it engaging in behaviours such as restrictive eating, purging, and body checking (Corstorphine, 2006;Skårderud & Fonagy, 2011;Schmidt & Treasure, 2006;Espeset et al, 2012). Therefore, an incongruence between expression of negative emotion and inner experience is likely to take place, and patients may inhibit the expression of negative feelings according to the belief that these would have aversive consequences, damage relationships and create or increase conflict (Davies, Swan, Schmidt, Tchanturia, 2012;Ioannou & Fox 2009).…”