When we want to approach eating disorders in infancy and childhood we can not forget the importance of relations with the relational patterns figures. The bond with the primary attachment figure is critical to the physical and emotional development. The “be fed” is a task essential to life, through it, it helps the child regulate their states, differ feelings / emotions. … to food and environment are created and entrenched relational patterns exist when feeding problems is essential to evaluate the interactive situation and the representational world of the attachment figure. Only then can we understand the disorder and help participants to solve (R. Feldman, Karen M., 2004).

In this paper the study of possible empathic failures in the original development of attachment in relation to disordered eating behavior is presented. To do this, we have taken a sample of 10 patients with DSM-IV criteria for an eating disorder diagnosis and valued the relationship with the attachment figure reference.

Try, therefore, to analyze the basic elements that come into play around the feeding in the first year of life: the child with its biological characteristics and temperament and adult relationship leading figure, which is the one with food to the child and gives.