
Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
Author: Tom WooldridgePublisher: RoutledgePaperback:ISBN 10: 9781138702042ISBN 13: 978-1138702042Hardcover:ISBN 10: 1138702013ISBN 13: 978-1138702011Psychoanalytic 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 conceptualization and treatment of eating disorders as well as contemporary issues, including social media, pro-a