Meshing (psychology)
Meshing is a term from psychology .
It describes a family's constant insistence on togetherness and community, as well as defending against autonomy and striving for self-realization . This term is to be understood in the context of an anorectic eating disorder . The meshing prevents a patient from developing free personality and is one of the reasons for the development of anorectic behavior, with the help of which she seeks to regain some power over herself.
"Everything the child does, it does not do for itself, but for the imagination of the parents. It has to fill in the forms in which its parents poured it. And whatever it does, it is not enough" (Franke 2003).
swell
- ↑ Minuchin, Rosman & Baker: Psychosomatic families: Anorexia nervosa in context. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1987
literature
- Alexa Franke: Ways out of the golden cage - understanding and treating anorexia . Beltz, Weinheim 2003, ISBN 3-407-22143-6