Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies - Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies

Sommario

Series Editors' Preface -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- The Inner World of the Child -- Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children -- Double Deprivation -- On Gang Dynamics -- Self-Esteem and Object Esteem -- On the Process of Internalisation -- Poor Feeders -- Reversal of the `Container/Contained' Relationship -- The No-Entry System of Defences -- On Introjective Processes -- Foreign Bodies

Info autore

Gianna Williams trained as a child and adult therapist and was part of the teaching staff of the Tavistock Clinic in the 1970s and later Consultant Psychotherapist at the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock, where in 1987 she founded the Eating Disorders Workshop. She has taught at the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London, and the Universities of Pisa and Bologna and has founded numerous courses based on the Tavistock model in Italy, France and Latin America.

Riassunto

Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. Here, the author elucidates the psychodynamics of these processes in the context of eating disorders in both sexes.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Gianna Williams, Williams Gianna
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367325138
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32513-8
• Pagine: 158
• Serie: Tavistock Clinic Series
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychotherapy, Eating disorders & therapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Eating Disorders, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)