From a psychoanalytic perspective, eating disorders are related to:
1. Conscious intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict.
2. Learned behavior regarding the affect of food.
3. Disturbance in the body system.
4. Regression to pubertal conflicts and repudiation of developing sexuality.
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Rationale: Psychoanalytic theory considers eating disorders to be systematic of unconscious conflicts. Psychoanalytic theory relates eating disorders to regression to prepuberty and repudiation of developing sexuality. Clients with anorexia are hypothesized to fear sexual maturity and the budding physical changes that accompany puberty.
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