Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders : When Words Fail and Bodies Speak (Paperback)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Introduction

Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, CEDS

1. Psychodynamic improvement in eating disorders: welcoming ignored, unspoken, and neglected concerns in the patient to foster development and resiliency　

Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD, FAED and Dana A. Satir, PhD, CEDS

2. Invisibility and insubstantiality in an anorexic adolescent: phenomenology and dynamics

Mary Brady, PhD

3. Primary interactions and eating disorders: a psychoanalytic perspective

Antonella Granieri, PhD

4. An island entire of itself: narcissism in anorexia nervosa

Anthony P. Winston, PhD

5. The dead third in the treatment of an adolescent with anorexia nervosa

Lorraine Caputo, LCSW

6. From knowing to discovering: some suggestions for work with an anorexic patient

Yael Kadish, PhD

7. Heathen talk: psychoanalytic considerations of eating disorders and the dissociated self

Judith Brisman, PhD

8. To know another inside and out: linking psychic and somatic experience in eating disorders

Danielle Novack, Ph.D.

9. On targeting emotion regulation deficits in eating disorders through defense analysis

Timothy Rice, M.D.

10. Eating disorders, impaired mentalization, and attachment: implications for child and adolescent family treatment

Starr Kelton-Locke, PhD

11. The low spark of high-heeled 'girls': hyperdeadness and Hyperawareness with eating-disordered patients

Jean Petrucelli, PhD

12. Psychodynamic importance of "cyber" and "in the flesh" friends in psychotherapy with college-aged adolescents with eating disorders

F. Diane Barth, LCSW

13. The enigma of ana: a psychoanalytic exploration of pro-anorexia Internet forums

Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, CEDS

14. Towards social justice: the continuum of eating and body image problems: how social and psychological realities converge into an embodied epidemic

Susan Gutwill, MSW, LCSW

15. Enduring perfectionism: seeing through eating disorder recovery and America’s cultural complex

Kim L. Grynick, LPC