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EPA-1651 – A Case of Eating Disorder Complicated by Multiple Personality Traits and Several Causative Agents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

F. Falzon Aquilina
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Mount Carmel Hospital, Attard, Malta
K. Sharma
Affiliation:
Psychiatry, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta

Abstract

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Introduction

A 23 year old woman with an established diagnosis of eating disorder was analysed for multiple personality traits in the background of a multifactorial etiology.

Objectives

  1. 1) Establishing secondary complications in the case

  2. 2) Diagramatically representing the findings

Aim

  1. 1) Identifying the personality traits

  2. 2) Etilogical analysis

Methods

  1. 1) Retrospective analysis of all medical and psychiatric events.

  2. 2) Interviewing the patient and relatives.

  3. 3) Research

  4. 4) Analysis of all medical investigations carried out.

  5. 5) Response to multidisciplinary management.

Results

Conclusion

It was confirmed that multiple factors played their roles in the development of the condition including both familial and environmental agents.

Type
P09 - Eating Disorders
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2014
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