A Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People

This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people, illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering.

Autorentext

Jeanne Magagna, PhD, is a child, adult and family psychotherapist trained at the Tavistock Clinic and former Head of Psychotherapy Services at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She currently teaches for the Centro Studi Martha Harris Tavistock Model trainings in Florence and Venice, Italy and is publishing and working internationally.

Inhalt

1. The Theatre of the Mouth 2. Ways of Assessing Children with Severe Eating Difficulties 3. Individual Therapy in the Context of a Multidisciplinary Eating Disorder Team 4. Family Therapy with a Boy with Eating Disorders 5. The Eye Turned Inward: Psychotic Anxieties Underlying Some Eating Disorders 6. Suicidal and Self-harm Ideation Accompanying Eating Disorders 7. Pervasive Retreat: 'I didn't want to die but I had to' 8. The Imprisoned Self