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Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl)
J Child Adolesc Behav, an open access journal
ISSN: 2375-4494
Child Psychology 2017
September 28-29, 2017
September 28-29, 2017 Berlin, Germany
23
rd
International Conference on
Adolescent Medicine &
Child Psychology
The letter to anorexia as a diagnostic and a therapeutic tool
Dorota Ryzanowska
Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
T
he aim of the presentation is to consider the usefulness of the narrative approach in understanding the experiences of patients
with anorexia nervosa. The study included 40 patients of the Department of Children’s Psychiatry and Mental Health Outpatient
Clinic of the St. Louis Regional Specialist Children's Hospital in Kraków, at the age of 11-18. The retrospective qualitative analysis of
40 therapeutic letters written by adolescent female patients suffering from anorexia nervosa shows that narrative techniques of work
such as letters are an important source of information useful in therapeutic context. Studies undertake among others, the question of
the relationship between the "Authentic Self " of an individual and an “anorexic voice” present in the patient’s mind which according
to the current of narrative therapy shows such an intensive tendency of domination of thoughts, emotions, decisions and actions that
patient can think about the disease like about his/her self-identity. The aim of the diagnosis and therapy in narrative approach is to
identify and deconstruct this kind of internalized viewpoints connected with anorexia and build strategies which allow the patient
to take control over them. The directions for potential psychotherapeutic applications of letters in the psychotherapy of patients with
anorexia are proposed.
Biography
Dorota Ryzanowska is a Psychologist and Psychotherapist. She has completed her PhD in 2014 from Jagiellonian University in Kraków. In 2009, she completed her
training in family therapy, which was conducted by the Systemic Psychotherapy Centre in Kraków. During the training, she held an internship in the Department of
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Medical College in Krakow. She has eight years of experience in professional work as a family and individual psychotherapist
of adolescents with eating disorders treated in the Department of Psychiatry of the Regional Specialist Children's Hospital in Kraków. She has published five papers
in psychological and pedagogical journals and several chapters in thematic monographs.
dorotary@wp.plDorota Ryzanowska, J Child Adolesc Behav 2017, 5:5(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2375-4494-C1-003