Biomedical subjects

A Ramacciotti

Publications and source records attributed to A Ramacciotti.

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PubMed2001

Attachment processes in eating disorders.

Anxious and insecure attachment, fear of abandonment and difficulties with autonomy differentiate young women with eating disorders from their normal peers. This paper uses the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) as the correlation between eating disorders and state of mind regarding attachment (7 females and 6 males) with anorexia nervosa and EDNOS. There was a higher frequency of dismissing or entangled states of mind. The sample is far too small to allow statistical inferences to be drawn about differences between men and women in the style of state of mind regarding attachment. An inference is none the less made with regard to the role of psychotherapy in these results.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1997

Citalopram in anorexia nervosa.

Thirthy-two female patients who had been diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa restricting subtype according to the DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV), were enrolled in a 6-month open trial with citalopram at a starting dose of 20 mg. At the end of the trial, 46.9% of the patients showed a satisfactory response, 34.4% an unsatisfactory response, improvement criteria being weight improvement, menstruation and score reduction on the Symptoms Checklist 90R. Anorectics also showed significant improvement in several Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) scores at the end of the trial, with greater improvement related to satisfactory response to citalopram. Data suggest that SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) Citalopram could be effective at least in a subgroup of anorectic patients, both on clinically objective and on subjective aspects of anorexia nervosa.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1997

A setting including psychotherapy and psychopharmacological treatment in a case of anorexia nervosa with obsessive compulsive disorder comorbidity.

In this case report we describe the therapy followed with a patient affected by atypical anorexia purging, in a setting that includes both psychotherapy and psychopharmacological treatment. The aim of this presentation is to show how the patient's ambivalence towards the treatment was faced, and how this work both rendered effective the pharmacological therapy and enabled the progression of the psychotherapy. There is a discussion of the interaction between psychotherapy and pharmacological therapy and their possible beneficial action on the symptomatology.

Adult↗