Psychoanalysis And Eating Disorders - Hardcover

Bemporad/Herzog.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089862388X ISBN 13: 9780898623888

Publisher: Guilford Press, 1989

Synopsis

Long before eating disorders were so widespread and "fashionable", psychoanalysts were observing anorexia nervosa. From as early as 1889, when Freud wrote to Fliess about the "anorexia nervosa of girls", the disorder has been reinterpreted along the lines of each new development in psychoanalytic thought. This work developed as a special issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, continues with the field's ground?breaking tradition in this area. Bringing psychoanalytic thought up?to?date, the volume features articles by clinicians recognized as having made significant contributions to the treatment and understanding of these perplexing disorders. They cover a wide array of topics that capture the full variety of types of patients and issues that arise in treatment. As such, this volume will be of value to the many practitioners who are encountering an increasing number of patients with eating disorders, and to the researchers who are seeking to understand them.

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Review

"This text stands as a refreshing and readable account of current issues in the field of psychoanalysis and eating disorders." --"British Review of Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa"

Synopsis

This volume will be of value to the many practitioners who are encountering an increasing number of patients with eating disorders, and to the researchers who are seeking to understand them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089862388X
• ISBN 13: 9780898623888
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160