Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders

Name: Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating DisordersWhen Words Fail and Bodies Speak\nAuthor(s): Tom Wooldridge\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138702011, 978-1138702011\nSynopsis\nPsychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak offers a compilation of some of the most innovative thinking on psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating disorders available today. In its recognition of the multiple meanings of food, weight, and body shape, psychoanalytic thinking is uniquely positioned to illuminate the complexities of these often life-threatening conditions. And while clinicians regularly draw on psychoanalytic ideas in the treatment of eating disorders, many of the unique insights psychoanalysis provides have been neglected in the contemporary literature. This volume brings together some of the most respected clinicians in the field and speaks to the psychoanalytic conceptualizati.