Relations between patients in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic inpatient care: a literature review and conclusions for clinical practice and research.

Objective: In psychiatric inpatient units patients live closely together, which facilitates mutual interactions. Patient relations are part of the therapeutic milieu, which is an important factor in helping patients to recover. Types of patient relations are nonbinding superficial encounters, working alliances, personal relations like close partner relationships, or sexual contacts.

[Interpersonal patterns in obese patients].

In the last decades the number of obese and pre-obese patients in Western industrial nations increased. Obese patients have been largely unsuccessful in losing weight over time, but the causes of their difficulties and the causes of their obesity have remained unclear. We examined whether the attachment style and its interaction with interpersonal processes would shed light on this question.

Echocardiographic findings in adolescents with anorexia nervosa at beginning of treatment and after weight recovery.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder with somatic complications. The aim of the study was to analyse echocardiographic abnormalities in patients with AN at initial examination and after weight restoration. A total of 173 consecutively admitted adolescents (aged 12-17 years), diagnosed with DSM-IV AN (307.