Hunger for connection: finding meaning in eating disorders

by Kullman, Alitta

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Title Statements

Full title :Hunger for connection : finding meaning in eating disorders / Alitta Kullman.

Summary

Who develops which eating disorder and why? When do eating disorders begin and what fuels them? In Hunger for Connection, psychoanalyst and eating-disorder specialist Alitta Kullman expands on the "body/mind" personality organization she calls the "perseverant personality," illustrating how food and thought are linked from infancy, and for some, can become the primary source of nurturance and thought-processing for a lifetime--leading to what we call an eating disorder. Writing in a highly accessible style, Kullman brings humor and gentleness to her interactions with patients, offering health professionals and mainstream readers alike an essential guide to understanding and/or working with cyclical eating disorders of all types. From psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and counsellors, to eating disorder specialists, researchers, and students, Hunger for Connection not only provides guidelines for therapists of varying theoretical orientations and levels of expertise, but help and hope to people suffering with eating disorders and those who care for and about them.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 156 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138289581, 1138289582, 9781138289604, 1138289604
oclc:ocn979566390
LC Classification:RC552.E18
Dewey Decimal:616.85/260651

Reaching for connection -- Hunger in the nursery -- Thoughts in search of a thinker -- Missing links -- Mind on a merry-go-round -- Thinking alone -- Food for thought -- The 'toxic container' -- The 'closed-circuit loop' -- No words to say it -- The shadow of shame -- Foreign relations -- Thinking together -- Thinking about thinking -- Thinking about feeling -- Thinking about eating -- Thinking interrupted -- Thinking and linking.