THE FOOD OF SHAME

Abstract

I present a clinical case of a young anorexic woman who has been in psychotherapy for one year. One of her most important psychic conflicts concerns a double personality, i.e. the confusion between the patient and her stillborn brother. To compensate the patient first wanted to realize an ideal perfection with liceal study, second, after the interruption of the school, she decided to be perfect in food control. The article is written in a narrative form to express better the emotions of this life’s tragedy