This study aimed to review the Brazilian literature on the use of projective techniques in the assessment of psychopathological features of patients with eating disorders. It is a systematic literature review from searches on LILACS and CAPES Thesis Databases, with the use of the descriptors "anorexia" and "bulimia". The obtained references were selected and, later, recovered in full version and submitted to a qualitative appreciation, organized in specific dimensions. The main psychopathological features reported were: passivity, introversion and obsessiveness, conflicts, tensions and anxieties in relation to the maternal figure, severe distortion of body image and tendency to merge in interpersonal relationships. The researches analysis revealed predominance of weak methodological designs. New researches involving the use of projective techniques in the context of anorexia and bulimia are needed to provide practitioners with empirical evidence, which may be engaged in multidisciplinary assessment protocols adapted to the Brazilian population.
Eating disorders; Nervous anorexia; Nervous bulimia; Projective techniques; Assessment scales
