A case of body image and eating difficulty

Author: Darling, Liv

Source: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Volume 23, Number 1, March 2009 , pp. 61-77(17)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This is a clinical discussion of work with a patient with body image and eating difficulties. Thought is given to the use made of the psychotherapeutic setting by the patient, in which limitation of the work and a pleasant elusiveness hides a more active engagement, as well as a secret involvement with more problematic and destructive processes. This constitutes an actualization of the patient's internal object world. Use is made of particular ideas to make sense of this presentation, in particular those from theories about eating disorders.

Keywords: body image difficulty; eating disorder; anorexia internal objects; mirroring

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02668730802710922

Publication date: 2009-03-01

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