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Integrative Psychotherapy<\/p>\n
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“The purpose of Psychotherapy is to set people free”\u00a0 Rollo May<\/p>\n
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Eating disorders are conditions characterised by severe disturbances in eating behaviour that may involve insufficient or excessive intake of food to the detriment of the person\u2019s physical and mental health. People with eating disorders place their value and self worth exclusively on their shape and weight to the point where this becomes their only concern. Even though the media is often blamed for causing eating disorders, the real issues are a lot more complex than that, and psychotherapeutic work is needed for the person to be liberated from the disorder.<\/p>\n
There is no one cause for eating disorders only predisposing factors. An eating disorder is the end point of many of the following interactive factors including:<\/p>\n
Research has found concordance of 55% for anorexia in monozygotic vs. 5% in dizygotic twins. Concordance in bulimia of 35% and 30% respectively.<\/p>\n
A trauma history is more common in bulimics.<\/p>\n
Cultural ideal body sizes have changed dramatically over the last 30 years, and today\u2019s cultural ideal is unrealistically thin. However not everybody reacts to culture pressures. What seems to be the link between culture pressures and eating disorders is the internalisation of the cultural ideal. An example of internalisation is when two girls look at the same picture of a thin model and whereas one girl would say, \u201cshe looks great\u201d, the other one would say \u201cI am so fat\u201d.<\/p>\n
Early puberty, weight gain in puberty.<\/p>\n
Research shows that food restriction (dieting) usually precedes most eating disorders. Dieting does NOT cause eating disorders since vast numbers of people diet and only a few develop eating disorders. However dieting is the \u201cnecessary condition\u201d from which the eating disorder emerges.<\/p>\n
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