1990
DOI: 10.1002/1098-108x(199009)9:5<529::aid-eat2260090508>3.0.co;2-e
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Ellen west revisited: The theme of death in eating disorders

Abstract: Binswanger's “The Case of Ellen West” is an often quoted case history in the literature on eating disorders and, therefore, is both a well‐known and historically important contribution to the field. While most authors emphasize in their own interpretations, her preoccupation with food and her fear of being fat, a careful study of Ellen West indicates that the dominant focus of discussion in this case history as revealed by a descriptor frequency count, is her existential struggles with death symbolism and deat… Show more

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“…These individuals were less likely to have a future time orientation, suggesting an avoidance of projecting into the future the fact that death is inevitable with the lapse of time (Martz & Linveh, 2003). Death anxiety is also associated with eating and self-mutilation disorders (Farber, Jackson, Tabin, & Bachar, 2007;Jackson, Davidson, Russell, & Vandereycken, 1990). Death anxiety was found to be significantly higher among both males and females with clinical anxiety disorders when compared to nonclinical, schizophrenic, and addicted groups (Abdel-Khalek, 2005).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…These individuals were less likely to have a future time orientation, suggesting an avoidance of projecting into the future the fact that death is inevitable with the lapse of time (Martz & Linveh, 2003). Death anxiety is also associated with eating and self-mutilation disorders (Farber, Jackson, Tabin, & Bachar, 2007;Jackson, Davidson, Russell, & Vandereycken, 1990). Death anxiety was found to be significantly higher among both males and females with clinical anxiety disorders when compared to nonclinical, schizophrenic, and addicted groups (Abdel-Khalek, 2005).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Thoma's denial of his patients preoccupation with death may also be found in his discussion and interpretation of L. Binswanger's Ellen West (1944-1945-1958. As a recent further reinterpretation has shown, her death anxiety and "immersion" in death constitutes the "leit motif" of this famous case history (Jackson, Davidson, Russell, & Vandereycken, 1990). He studiously avoids this perception but does, however, touch lightly on Ellen's ethereal or "tomb-world," and seems in agreement with his fellow author, Schultz-Hencke, that anorexia may represent, ".…”
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“…On the one hand, psychotherapists of different orientations employed the clinical data presented to explain the case and interpret it in terms of the psychological theories they developed or to criticize the administered treatment and reject Binswanger's interpretation. (For the former see Jackson et al 1990, Seinfeld 1991. For the latter see Lester 1971, Burstow 1980–1981, Rogers 1989, Maltsberger and Buie 1974).…”
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