[Anorexia nervosa and music therapy]

Abstract

Supporting people suffering from anorexia nervosa remains a challenge. While traditional treatment focuses more on speech and its emergence for the patient and family, non-medicinal and non-verbal therapies are used more systematically, sometimes as a last resort. Yet, as a non-verbal mediated therapy, music therapy can find a legitimate place and complement all the psychiatric, psychotherapeutic, somatic, dietetic and nursing areas where speech already circulates.

Keywords: anorexia nervosa; anorexie mentale; assessment; complementary therapy; music therapy; musicothérapie; recherche; research; thérapie complémentaire; évaluation.