抄録
Eating disorders are common to young women and have a high mortality. As there is a wide range of variations of the types of eating disorders, psychosocial treatments are provided in conjunction with pharmacotherapy. Especially family therapy is supposed to be effective because supports from the family have significant effects on the patient’s recovery. On the other hand, the patient has gender dysphoria with symptoms similar to disgust for one’s own femininity and also the relationship between these two symptoms is pointed out. In this paper, we report the concluded case where we conducted the interviews of four times in total with the parents of the daughter (IP) with gender dysphoria and previous history of eating disorders by using brief therapy. We are going to consider this case from 5 points: (1) Diagnoses of a vicious circle of the family, (2) Discoveries of the family resources and exceptions, (3) What changed the family system and led to problem solving, (4) Family’s acceptance of gender dysphoria, and (5) Future issues.
