ABSTRACT

This book examines the so-called War on Obesity as an example of a cultural complex, how that complex shapes the way fat is treated in psychotherapy, including the classical Jungian approach to fat, as written by Marion Woodman. It looks at the experience of being fat as an ongoing trauma.

chapter ONE|7 pages

Life in the panopticon

chapter FIVE|24 pages

Woodman, my mother, and me

chapter SIX|19 pages

Woodman and anger, food, eating, and control

chapter SEVEN|13 pages

A last look at Woodman

chapter ELEVEN|8 pages

Coming out as fat