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      Contextualizing psychoanalytic approaches to eating disorders

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      Contextualizing psychoanalytic approaches to eating disorders
      ByTom Wooldridge
      BookPsychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders

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      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 13
      eBook ISBN 9781315203706
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      ABSTRACT

      This chapter provides some comments about the value of psychoanalytic approaches to the treatment of eating disorders and describes contemporary psychoanalytic approaches within a broader historical framework. Beginning with Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysts have attempted to make sense of the tormented inner lives and the puzzling variety of behaviors of patients with eating disorders. For the sake of clarity, these explanations can be grouped into three categories, according to the theoretical schools from which they originate and the order in which they appear in the professional literature: drive-conflict, object relations, and self-psychology. Self-psychologists have emphasized developmental failures in the processes of mirroring and idealization which, in turn, create difficulties in maintaining self-esteem and self-cohesion. In this context, eating-disorder symptoms serve restorative and regulatory functions for the personality. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.

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