Eating Disorders
eBook - ePub

Eating Disorders

A Contemporary Introduction

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Eating Disorders

A Contemporary Introduction

About this book

This book presents an accessible introduction to the conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Each of the chapters offers a different perspective on these difficult-to-treat conditions and taken together, illustrate the breadth and depth that psychoanalytic thinking can offer both seasoned clinicians as well as those just beginning to explore the field. Different aspects of how psychoanalytic theory and practice can engage with eating disorders are addressed, including mobilizing its nuanced developmental theories to illustrate the difficulties these patients have with putting feelings into words, the loathing that they feel towards their bodies, the disharmonies they experience in the link between body and mind, and even the ways that they engage with online Internet forums.

This is an accessible read for clinicians at the start of their career and will also be a useful, novel take on the subject for experienced practitioners.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780367861209
eBook ISBN
9781000641776

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Alexithymia and the Psychic Elaboration of Emotion
  9. 2 Early Relationships, Object Relations, and Traumatic Themes
  10. 3 Traumatic Themes, Repetition, and Mourning
  11. 4 Abjection and Bodily Disgust
  12. 5 Body–Mind Dissociation and False Bodies
  13. 6 Gender, Culture, and Desire
  14. 7 Affect Regulation, Dissociation, and Body Imaginings
  15. 8 The Role of the Father and the Paternal Function
  16. 9 Eating Disorders in Cyberspace
  17. Index