A comparison of psychopathology in eating disorder patients from France and the United States.

OBJECTIVE: This study compares Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles of subtypes of eating disorder patients in France and the United States. METHOD: The patients were hospitalized in psychiatric hospitals in France and the United States. Diagnoses were made by independent clinicians who reviewed the clinical material. The 550-item version of the MMPI was administered to the US subjects; and a 357-item version to the French. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In both the US and French subjects, more psychopathology was found in the groups diagnosed with both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa than in those with either anorexia nervosa or bulimia alone, consistent with previous research. The US subjects had generally more psychopathology than the French, except in the anorexia-restrictor subgroup.

[In search of psychological marks for prediction about sensibility to cognitive therapy]. / Recherches d'indices psychologiques prédictifs de la réponse à la thérapie cognitive.

The use of Beck's cognitive therapy showed that some patients obtained no improvement. A few studies have enlightened some prospective factors in response to cognitive therapy. Therefore the purpose of this study is to elicit some M.M.P.I. profiles which could predict the outcome of the therapy. 51 patients were assessed before and after cognitive psychotherapy. Three groups of reactivity were obtained: the responders, partially responders and non responders.