Anorexic Mind

About the author

Marilyn Lawrence is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis. She works in the Adult Department of the Tavistock Clinic and in private practice in London. She has a long-standing interest in eating disorders, as well as in gender and sexual development. Her published works include 'The Anorexic Experience' (1984), 'Fed Up and Hungry' (1989), and 'Fighting Food' (1990). She is currently Programme Director of the Foundation Course in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and is Director of Publications at the Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Summary

Eating disorders vary in severity from developmental difficulties in adolescence to chronic mental illnesses. This work offers a coherent approach to these difficult and demanding problems, underlining the point that while many of the manifestations are physical, eating disorders have their origins as well as their solutions, in the mind.

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Lawrence, Lawrence Marilyn
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367327477
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32747-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Tavistock Clinic Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Medical professions; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Eating disorders & therapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Eating Disorders, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)