Insights From a Sixty-Four-Year Case of Anorexia Nervosa - Constancy and Change in Symptoms and Treatment

This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient, and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the sixty-year period from 1938 to 2002.

List of contents

Preamble 1. Introduction and Note on Eating 2. Origins of the Diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa 3. The Patient, Her Mother, and Her Doctors 4. Interview Sequence 5. My Sessions with Ms. B 6. The Elusive Therapeutics of Anorexia Nervosa 7. Summing Up Appendices

About the author

Don R. Lipsitt, M.D., is Professor of Psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School and Associate in Psychiatry, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.

Summary

This volume offers rare insight into an enduring case of anorexia nervosa in a female patient, and details the approaches to treatment taken by psychotherapists throughout the sixty-year period from 1938 to 2002.

Product details

• Authors: Don R. Lipsitt, Lipsitt Don R.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032077697
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3207769-7
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Routledge Research in Women's Mental Health
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Eating disorders & therapy, Sociology: family & relationships, Eating disorders and therapy, Sociology: family and relationships, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis