Resumen

NUNES, Arlene Leite  y  HOLANDA, Adriano. Understanding eating disorders by the way of Gestalt-therapy. Rev. abordagem gestalt. [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.2, pp.172-181. ISSN 1809-6867.

Eating disorders are nowadays a group of diseases that affects an important amount of the population, specifically teenagers. Its symptomatology points to the necessity of a straight contact with the experimental reality of the subject that suffer these disorders. The conception of human being to Gestalt-therapy is a particular, concrete, unique, conscious, responsible and relational being. This article has the objective of discussing and taking a look over the eating disorders, presenting Gestalt-therapy as approach that owns privileged resources to deal with this kind of manifestation, from a perception of the disease as contextualized and of the subject as a being-in-the-world.

Palabras clave : Anorexia nervosa; Bulimia nervosa; Eating disorders; Gestalt-therapy.

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