Treatment of eating disorders improves eating symptoms but not alexithymia and dissociation proneness.

Background: Eating disorders have been reported to increase in frequency, but it is yet unclear what psychological characteristics increase the proneness toward the development of eating disorders. Alexithymia (AL; a difficulty in awareness to one's emotions) and dissociation proneness are 2 such plausible features.

Method: In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of a combined intervention (group therapy, individual therapy, and pharmacologic therapy) in a group of soldiers with eating disorders (n = 30) in the Israel Defense Forces.

Successful multidisciplinary treatment in an adolescent case of rumination.

Rumination is a rare and complex disorder to treat. It involves repeated regurgitation, rechewing and reswallowing of food and occurs mainly among infants and mentally retarded children. Among adolescents and adults it is rather rare, but still might cause significant sequelae (depression, other eating disorders and social problems).