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Infant insecurities may lead to adult eating disorders

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New York, NY (AHN)-A new study suggests insecure attachment plays a key role in promoting the development of a negative body image in women with eating disorders. This suggests that the prevention and treatment of eating disorders might be strengthened by a greater concentration on early separation anxiety and insecure attachment to caregivers.

In the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. Alfonso Troisi and colleagues explain the theory of attachment holds that early experiences shape adult personality. Infants who are emotionally cared for "develop a model of the self as loved and valued and a model of the other as loving."

Infants, on the other hand, who experience neglect and/or rejection at the hands of a caregiver, and come to believe that they cannot depend on their caregiver, may begin to feel that they are unworthy of love.

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