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The study of philosophy and religion confronts us with the body-soul duality, the body considered as an instrument of the devil destined to overpower the human soul, a filthy coating we must rid ourselves of. The body has needs and desires that persecute the psyche. It changes, declines, dies, and rots, while the psychic self (the "soul" in its metaphysical version) is limitless, glorious, and eternal. Selvini-Palazzoli was the first to demonstrate that in anorexia it is not food the patient fears, but the