Prospective study of outcome in bulimics as a function of Axis-II comorbidity: long-term responses on eating and psychiatric symptoms

Article Abstract:

The comorbidity of Axis-II personality disorder (PD) in bulimic patients has stronger impact on unfavourable outcomes in psychiatric symptoms than in eating symptoms. Bulimic patients with borderline PDs show more severe generalized psychiatric symptoms than those with other PDs during both treatment and long-term posttreatment follow ups. This difference between borderlines and nonborderlines is less significant with regard to outcome of bulimic symptoms. Theoretical and clinical implications of the association between eating and psychiatric symptoms, and Axis-II PDs are discussed.

Psychological aspects, Physiological aspects, Personality disorders

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Controlled study of eating concerns and psychopathological traits in relatives of eating-disordered probands: do familial traits exist?

Article Abstract:

The family may be more important in the transmission of psychopathology than in the transmission of eating disorders per se. The study compared patients from an eating disorders clinic, patients with psychiatric problems warranting therapy and normal controls. Parental affective problems were more likely to show up in children than eating disorders. The role of the family in eating disorder transmission may thus be that of transmitting psychopathology which makes one more vulnerable to eating disorders, not transmitting the eating disorders per se.

Psychology, Pathological, Psychopathology

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Familial eating concerns and psychopathological traits: causal implications of transgenerational effects

Article Abstract:

Familial specificities and tendencies of psychopathological traits are examined in relation to familial eating concerns. Eating concerns are found to be independent of generalized psychopathological traits. Variations on general psychopathology are represented by the factors of narcistic traits, affective instability, and compulsive and emotional constriction. Heritability of these psychopathological factors is not established, but there is a suggestion of familial tendency.

Analysis, Anorexia nervosa, Psychophysiology

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