Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is characterized by body image distortion. From a phenomenological perspective, body image disturbance has been associated with a more profound disturbance encompassing disorders of the way persons experience their own body. The aim of this study was to disentangle the complex dynamics that connect the experience of one’s own body and self-identity to the psychopathological features of AN by applying a network analysis. Fifty-seven patients with AN restrictive subtype and 27 with AN binge–purging subtype participated in the study. Eating Disorders Inventory-2 and Identity and Eating Disorders subscores, measuring the embodiment dimensions, were included in the network. Two of the main dimensions of embodiment—feeling extraneous from one’s own body and feeling oneself through objective measures—were the nodes with the highest strength together with interoceptive awareness (IA). IA was a node included in several pathways connecting embodiment dimensions with most of the AN psychopathological dimensions. The centrality of the embodiment disorder suggests the importance of considering the body image disturbance in people with AN as resulting from their difficulty in experiencing inner states and as a tool to build its own self. This assumption may orient therapeutic interventions.

Vulnerability to interpersonal stress has been widely recognized as an important risk factor for Eating Disorder (ED) psychopathology. Adult insecure attachment may involve dysregulated emotional, biological and behavioural strategies to cope with social stressors. Although the high prevalence of insecure attachment in people with EDs, no study, to date, has explored the impact of

People affected by psychiatric disorders and reporting childhood trauma exposure are characterized by more severe psychopathology and specific neurobiological alterations. Altered stress reactivity is a potential pathway that may confer maltreated children an increased vulnerability to adulthood psychopathology. Although early adverse experiences and interpersonal stress have been

Eating disorders (EDs) are psychiatric diseases with possible neurodevelopmental etiopathogenesis. Aim of this study was to estimate and compare brain regional cortical thickness (CT) and gyrification index (GI), specific markers of deviations from normal neurodevelopment, in females with EDs and healthy controls. Twenty-two underweight anorexia nervosa (AN), 10 weight recovered

PARENTAL ATTACHMENT AND EARLY TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES: WHICH POSSIBLE ROLE IN EATING DISORDER PSYCHOPATHOLOGY? V. Ruzzi1, G. Patriciello1, F. Pellegrino1, G. Cascino2, F. Zinno1, A. Vece1, A.M. Monteleone1. 1University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Psychiatry, Naples, Italy. 2University of Salerno, Department of Medicine- Surgery and Dentistry "Scuola Medica Salernitana"- Section