HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND RELATIONAL DYNAMICS. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS

The present work aims to address the topic of eating disorders, from an innovative perspective. In fact, based on the case of the Centre “G. Gioia “Chiaromonte (PZ), (regional reference center of excellence), we investigates the influences that may have at the end of a long course of treatment, the external setting and internal setting. The methodological approach used is an integrated quality and quantity. In order not to lose any emotional nuance was chosen as a tool, open plan to the letter. The group of subjects consists of 90 girls aged between 13 and 50 years. On reports of the letters, was applied an analysis technique called multidimensional analysis of lexical correspondences (ACL) (Ercolani, Mannetti e Areni, 1990). Extracted factors were considered the first two, which together explain 77.30% of the total. The results show that the external setting, the setting and internal relations with the staff of the Centre, are considered by the patients themselves part of certain course of treatment.