FST biological explanation for AN
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- Created on: 18-01-19 18:47
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- Psychological explanations of AN
- Family systems theory
- Psychodynamic theory of AN by Minuchin
- Minuchin identified four main features associated with an anorexic family
- 1) enmeshment: members of an anorexic family are too involved with each other
- Boundaries are 'fuzzy'
- Poorly defined roles and lack of leadership
- Members spend a lot of time together
- Means that adolescent daughter tries to differentiate her identity by refusing to eat
- Families identities overlap
- Families identities overlap
- 2) overprotective: family members constantly defend each other from external forces
- Obsessive nurturing reinforces family loyalty leaving no room for independence
- Mother of the daughter with AN saw her role as a personal sacrifice.
- The mother felt that her decisions were for the daughters benefit and not her own, making it easier to blame her daughter when things went wrong
- 3) Rigidity: interactions within anorexic families are extremely inflexible
- deny the need for change and try to keep things as they are
- problems arise due to pressure
- Family is too rigid to adapt so go into crisis
- Example: AN daughter wants to differentiate her identity which is then squashed by family
- results in dysfunctional behaviour such as AN
- 4) Conflict avoidance
- family suppress conflict and refuse to discuss issues
- problems aren't solved and fester into crisis
- AN daughter refuses to eat and family refuses to acknowledge this
- Brunch
- Argues that AN is caused by adolescent daughters struggle to achieve autonomy and control
- Intrusive mother does not accept daughters need for independance
- Causes daughter to have distorted body image, loos of control and controls this by controlling her body (the thinner the more control)
- Argues that AN is caused by adolescent daughters struggle to achieve autonomy and control
- Psychodynamic theory of AN by Minuchin
- Family systems theory
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