Manger à l’hôpital et en famille avec les adolescentes anorexiques : une lecture anthropologique du repas familial thérapeutique

Abstract

The hospitalization of anorexic teenagers is usually long and comes, most of the time, after different kinds of care. Family support in the treatment of mental anorexia among teenagers is a fundamental focus in the context of hospitalization. As a transition at the end of the hospitalization, the implementation of a therapeutic family meal with families and caregivers become part of the rite of passage that hospitalization embodies for the suffering teenagers and for their family. The ritual approach, socio-anthropological considerations, the question of the status of the teenager, the transition between the hospitalization and the house, the nature of the relationship between care-givers and care-receivers, are so many themes that allow to understand the peculiar interest of the therapeutic family meal.