Non ducor duco: on the urgent need to control as seen eating disorders

Non ducor duco: sobre a necessidade imperativa de controle nos transtornos alimentares

Non ducor duco: über die zwangsmäβige beherrschung bei essstörungen

Non ducor duco: sur la nécessité impérieuse de contrôle dans les cadre des troubles alimentaires

Non ducor duco: sobre la necesidad imperativa de control en los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria

The need to control, seen in clinical work with patients having eating disorders, led us to wonder whether this type of symptom might be the expression of obsessive factors or even of melancholy. Other aspects of this clinical work, such as the refusal to accept reality, the difficulty in dealing with losses, and self-accusatory discourse, warrant the association of such disorders with melancholy and underline its seriousness.

Eating disorders; control; adolescence; melancholy