Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents

The Generosity of Acceptance

Gianna Polacco Williams, Paul Williams, Jane Desmarais, Kent Ravenscroft (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-32440-7 (ISBN)

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The volumes consist of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to treat the patients. The contributors look at the underlying causes for the disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia, lead to a normal life with the help of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and adolescents, from babies to 19-year-olds. The volumes consist of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to t

Desmarais, Jane

Introduction -- "Who's that girl?" An anorexic girl's search for identity and fear of contamination by the damaged (internal) parental couple -- Eating disorders in adolescence: the function of receiving -- Paula's secret: an adolescent with bulimia -- The uncovering of a lack of identity -- "I didn't want to die, but I had to": the pervasive refusal syndrome -- Some reflections on the processes of projection and introjection in eating disorders -- An anorexic girl's relationship to a very damaged persecutory internal object and its impact on her illness -- Fantasies concerning body functioning in an anorexic adolescent

Erscheinungsdatum	07.08.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	662 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10	0-367-32440-7 / 0367324407
ISBN-13	978-0-367-32440-7 / 9780367324407
Zustand	Neuware