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0317/2015 - Therapeutic itineraries of subjects with anorexic and bulimic’ symptoms
Itinerários terapêuticos de sujeitos com sintomas anoréxicos e bulímicos

Author:

• Maria Bernadete de Carvalho - de Carvalho, Maria Bernadete - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Medicina Preventiva e Social - <bernadetec59@gmail.com>

Co-author(s):

• Alexandre Costa-Val - Costa-Val, Alexandre - Universidade Federal de São João Del-Rei, Saúde Coletiva - <alecostaval@yahoo.com.br>
• Maria Mônica Freitas Ribeiro - Ribeiro, M.M.F - Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Clínica Médica - <mmonicaribe@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4877-7188
• Lúcia Grossi dos Santos - dos Santos, Lúcia Grossi - Universidade FUMEC, Psicologia - <lgrossi.bhe@terra.com.br>

Thematic Area:

Saúde Mental

Abstract:

The study aims at identifying and contextualizing aspects of the therapeutic itineraries of patients treated at an university medical clinic, specialized in anorexia and bulimia. We reconstituted the sequence of movements provoked in 20 interviewed patients by the classification of their anorexic and bulimic practices as “health problems”. Patients’ narratives were analyzed as to tie individual experiences to the social context in which they occur (such as the healthcare services, aspects of medical practice, aspects of contemporary subjectivity), under theoretical references of Psychoanalysis and Collective Health. Analysis of data showed that such itineraries are built through connections and disconnections of two distinct logics: one that organizes patients’ conducts and another one that rules the conduct of health care institutions and the patients’ families. If the last one concerns a search for health, this is not the main concern of the subjects. Their denial to moderate their own eating disorders leaves marks on the itineraries, and indicates the functionality of those practices. Such practices participate in a work on the recomposition of their own images, which should be contemplated their treatments.

Keywords:

Mental Health Anorexia Bulimia Healthcare-Seeking behavior Power (Psychology).

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de Carvalho, Maria Bernadete, Costa-Val, Alexandre, Ribeiro, M.M.F, dos Santos, Lúcia Grossi. Therapeutic itineraries of subjects with anorexic and bulimic’ symptoms. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2015/Nov). [Citado em 21/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/therapeutic-itineraries-of-subjects-with-anorexic-and-bulimic-symptoms/15390?id=15390



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