ANOREXIA AS A WAY TO SUPPRESS THE LIBIDO OF TEENAGERS

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenology of the secondary benefits of anorexia, namely, the use of this symptom to suppress libido in adolescents and young girls with hypertrophied internal and external religious prohibition on the part of parents to manifest their growing sexuality, due to physiology. The causes of anorexia are described in many scientific works, but the peculiarities of the influence of religious attitudes of parents on the formation of anorexia in adolescents are poorly disclosed. This article reveals the psychological mechanisms (replacing aggression and secondary benefits) that keep the problem and make it impossible to achieve a result in the treatment of this ailment. The article presents a sample of those who applied to a psychological center for help from parents of adolescents suffering from anorexia and at the same time having strong religious prejudices, which, in our opinion, affects the occurrence and retention of a negative symptom under certain circumstances. For successful therapy and prevention of anorexia, we have established what circumstances can contribute to the occurrence of anorexia in adolescents from families with a strong religious orientation. The key point in working with the girls with whom we managed to conduct psychoanalytic sessions was their temporary disconnection from their religious beliefs until a conscious choice in the future. This serves as a prerequisite for an effective solution to the problem, since the existing doubts about religion, what is good / bad, right / wrong, create a certain neurotic pressure and can lead to consequences such as anorexia.