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The family is the first context in which the symptoms assume a precise function for the relational operation. In addition, it's the social system of main reference in the emotional experience of a person.

The emotional competence is acquired inside of the familiar system through the verbal and not verbal communication. In some typology of families, the acquisition of dysfunctional familiar communication patterns generates symptomatology also in the regulation of the emotions.

The alexithymia is a typical trait of various psychiatric pathologies, like the psychosomatic disorders, the eating disorders and the depression. The alexithymic trait can provoke in the child some difficulties to make experiences of self efficacy and knowledge of himself.

The aim of this study is to describe how the change of the familiar system imprints in the regulation of the emotions and in the development of some psychiatric pathologies and how much the emotional transform of the single person can change the same social system. Will be examined the nature of the alexithymia in subjects with eating disorders.