1st Edition
Exploring Feeding Difficulties in Children The Generosity of Acceptance
Edited By Jane Desmarais, Kent Ravenscroft, Gianna Polacco Williams, Paul ((Psychotherapist)) Williams
Copyright 2003
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and adolescents, from babies to 19-year-olds. The volumes consist of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to treat the patients. The contributors look at the... Read more
Editors and Contributors, Introduction, 1. Idealisation and comtempt: dual aspects of the process of devaluation of the breast and feeding relationship. 2. Feeding difficulties in infancy: Faruk and Shereen. 3. Getting to know Miral: some thoughts on the nature of feeding difficulties in the psychotherary of a 5-year old boy. 4. A latency boy's eating difficulties and their meaning in this inner world. 5. Aspects of Body Image and sense of identity in a boy with autism: impications for eating disorders. 6. Marco: a story of a school relationship. References.
Biography
Jane Desmarais
