ABSTRACT
The chapter describes initially on how a picture of George's inner world emerged over the first year and a half of his therapy. It discusses the process of working through the difficulties that occurred during the rest of his therapy, which lasted for four years. The feeding difficulties were part of an overall picture, in which there was evidence of difficulties in learning, in relating to others, and in separating. The food George ate, the way he ate it, and the food he did not eat all held important meaning about his inner world. The chapter explores the meaning that was attached to George's eating patterns as they emerged in the course of his therapy. George provided abundant material that suggested both the dangerousness of the world in which father was a central figure and the contamination of the food within it. As George approached the first therapy break, his wistfulness and nostalgic sense of lost union loomed large.
