Main description:

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.

The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams.

Written by an eminent author in the field, this will be a key text for anyone wishing to understand eating disorders in children from a psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic dimension.

Contents:

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