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Peer reviewedRoberto, Laura Giat – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1986
Within families with bulimia, certain interactional patterns enable and perpetuate the patient's binge-eating and purging symptoms. A transgenerational treatment method is proposed, which intervenes in ongoing dysfunctional patterns, and provides a frame for creating a therapeutic metaphor ("legacy") to direct the therapy. Rationale and stages of…
Descriptors: Bulimia, Counseling Techniques, Eating Habits, Family Counseling
