Corcos, Maurice

Anorexia Nervosa: From the Feminine to the Maternal - 2013.


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In a transnosographical approach, integrating the impact of the sociocultural environment and transgenerational dimensions, the author evokes the early interrelationships and their consequences in a dysfunctional situation, a central hypothesis in addictive alimentary disorders: there is a failure of the maternal, to spite themselves, in the patients’mothers who, in particular, are unable to cathect an autonomous, living and erotic body in the child.