ABSTRACT
For some years I have been interested in work with patients who are difficult to reach, and patients with eating disorders do often belong to this category. In many of them I have experienced a quality of ‘i/o not trespass’ that has brought me to formulate the hypothesis of a ‘no-entry’ system of defences. In this chapter I shall describe problems encountered in the assessment and treatment of an adolescent suffering from eating disorders where this ‘no-entry’ syndrome was unusually pervasive, and extend the theme of the child as recipient of parental projections from Chapter 8.
