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The Shadow of the Body (The Psychology of Weight Loss Series) - Softcover
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Your weight has been carrying something. Your unconscious knows what.
Beneath the behaviour, beneath the food, there is meaning. The Shadow of the Body is the most explicitly Jungian volume in the series, an invitation into the depth-psychological work of discovering what your weight has been doing for you rather than to you.
Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden introduces the shadow, the fat identity, and what being overweight may have protected you from. He examines the unconscious contract with your body, food as communication with the shadow, and the figure of the saboteur, before turning to the integration of the body shadow and the practice of shadow work itself.
This is not a book of techniques to apply from the outside. It is a descent into the material beneath the symptom, where lasting change actually begins.
For readers ready to look beneath the surface of their relationship with food and body.
Book Seven of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. You have asked yourself a thousand times how to lose the weight. This book asks the question almost no one is brave enough to ask: why do you carry it?You have tried everything. The diets. The programmes. The trainers. The medications. And maybe some of them worked for a while. You lost the weight. You felt hopeful. You believed this time would be different. And then, inevitably, the weight came back.Not because you are weak. Not because you lack discipline. Because you never addressed the shadow.In Jungian thought, the shadow contains everything we have denied, repressed, or disowned: the qualities we were taught were unacceptable, the truths we cannot afford to face, the parts of ourselves we learned to hide in order to survive. The shadow does not disappear when we refuse to look at it. It goes underground. And in many people, the body becomes the place where it surfaces.Weight, drawn from twenty years of clinical work, is shadow material made flesh.In The Shadow of the Body, Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden offers a depth-psychological framework that is rarely brought into the weight loss conversation. This is not a diet book. There are no meal plans, no exercise routines, no before-and-after photographs. It is something more demanding and more honest: a guided excavation of the unconscious material your weight has been carrying for you.Inside, you will discover: What the personal shadow, the collective shadow, and the golden shadow reveal about why your body holds what it holdsThe concept of the fat identity, and why losing weight can feel terrifyingly like losing yourselfWhat being overweight has been protecting you fromThe unconscious contract between your ego and your bodyThe archetype of the saboteur, the inner figure who derails your success precisely when you are succeedingA six-month shadow work programme oriented specifically toward the body and the weight it carriesFor the reader drawn to depth psychology. For anyone who has read enough Jung to suspect that the answer is not on a scale or in a meal plan. For the person who has begun to sense that the body is trying to tell them something the conscious mind has not yet been willing to hear.You have spent years asking how do I lose it? The shadow has been waiting, all this time, for a different question.Begin the descent today. The weight has carried you faithfully. It is time, finally, to discover what it has been carrying. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781067165635
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Your weight has been carrying something. Your unconscious knows what.Beneath the behaviour, beneath the food, there is meaning. The Shadow of the Body is the most explicitly Jungian volume in the series, an invitation into the depth-psychological work of discovering what your weight has been doing for you rather than to you.Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden introduces the shadow, the fat identity, and what being overweight may have protected you from. He examines the unconscious contract with your body, food as communication with the shadow, and the figure of the saboteur, before turning to the integration of the body shadow and the practice of shadow work itself.This is not a book of techniques to apply from the outside. It is a descent into the material beneath the symptom, where lasting change actually begins.For readers ready to look beneath the surface of their relationship with food and body.Book Seven of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series. Seller Inventory # 9781067165635