Externalization in dealing with eating disorders
Abstract
The article is about the usage of the externalization dialogue in dealing with eating disorders. It is based on a concrete example from therapeutic practice and it is shown that this way of working with clients with eating disorders is very effective. These clients often speak of a certain “disunity“ in themselves. They have name for their “second self“ and they speak to it. They also talk about the fact that they really want to change something but “something or someone keeps their efforts off“. The externalization dialogue is generally used to reinforce the healthy part of personality against the symptom or disease. The article shows that regarding clients with eating disorders there may be different ways of employing this method. The process of full recovery is not a fight against the disorder and its weakening but a process of building an alliance with the disorder. Only thanks to this alliance the recovery is possible in some cases.
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Keywords
eating disorders, externalization, therapyLiterature
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