Marital Relations Pecularities of Women with Bulimia: Attachment Styles, Patterns of Interaction with the Partner

Student: Sapelkina Varvara

Educational Programme: Systemic Family Therapy (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2024

Bulimia nervosa is a disorder of complex etiology that tends to occur in young women. These individuals binge eat and purge by vomiting or other means, and often have depression, anxiety, substance abuse and extremes of impulse control. In this research we study marital relations pecularities of women with bulimia: attachment styles, patterns of interaction with the partner. Women with bulimia usually stick to fearful avoidant attachment style in relationships (they struggle to reconcile their desire for intimacy with their fear of getting too close). In our research we see that women with bulimia are more likely to use self-blame in conflicts with their partner. The understanding of those peculiarities may be very useful for couple, family and individual therapy with such women.

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