Retrospective memoirs as a diagnostic method of eating disorders

The method of directional retrospective analysis of the problem "My relationship with food" (MTPA-food) was produced in the article. It was proved the thesis that the method allows to reveal not only the various aspects of the relationship of the author-respondent "with food" in everyday life, but also allows to trace the process of "distortion" of food behavioral strategies, to find the "roots" of eating disorders and understand the philosophical foundations of his relationship to food, to himself, his physicality, to establish causation of disorders and to plan ways of correction.