The Challenges of Potential Destructiveness in Designing a Therapeutic Framework for Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa.

The authors begin by presenting the epistemological foundations that enabled them to design a therapeutic mediation framework aimed at enhancing the treatment of hospitalized anorexic patients. This unique framework utilizes bodily exploration through sound and music vibration. The authors were inspired by a method of of the body image through clay modeling, created by Gisela Pankow, and by the bodily aspects of the subject's relationship with the object in transitional phenomena and in playing, as elaborated by Donald W.

Prevalence of lifetime eating disorders in infertile women seeking pregnancy with pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone therapy.

Objectives: Relationships between weight and fertility are well known. The aim of this study is to assess the prevalence of lifetime eating disorder (ED) in a sample of infertile women seeking a specific infertility treatment, pulsatile gonadotropin-releasing hormone (pGnRH) treatment, and to compare it to the prevalence of lifetime ED in a sample of infertile women seeking other types of assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatments.

Design: Non-randomized, observational study including infertile female patients.