Exploring Eating Disorders Through Psychoanalysis - Unravelling the Psyche

Exploring Eating Disorders through Psychoanalysis explores eating disorders as complex clinical conditions and uses psychoanalysis to explore the psychological factors behind them.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Historical Context of Eating Disorders
Chapter 3: Clinical manifestations of eating disorders
Chapter 4: Psychoanalytic Theory and Eating Disorders
Chapter 5: Unconscious Dynamics of Eating Disorders
Chapter 6: Early Development and Family Dynamics
Chapter 7: Transference and Countertransference
Chapter 8: Dream Analysis and Imagery in Eating Disorder Treatment
Chapter 9: Treatment Approaches in Psychoanalytic Therapy
Chapter 10: Beyond the Individual: Sociocultural Factors in Eating Disorders
Chapter 11: Integration and Future Directions
Epilogue
Conclusion: The Journey Towards Healing

About the author

Humberto Lorenzo Persano is a psychiatrist at the School of Medicine in the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a professor of Mental Health and Psychiatry, and Psychology of Nutrition as well as holding the position of Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychiatry and Mental Health. He is a member of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and a training analyst and supervising and child and adolescent psychoanalyst at the IPA.

Product details

• Authors: Humberto Lorenzo Persano
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 04.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032724980
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3272498-0
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: IPA in the Community
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Eating disorders & therapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Eating disorders and therapy, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis