Internal landscapes and foreign bodies : eating disorders and other pathologies / Gianna Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Gianna Polacco.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series.

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Object relations (Psychoanalysis).

Internalization.

Eating disorders.

Psychoanalysis--Case studies.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly imaginative development of these models of thought, the distinguished clinician Gianna Williams, one of the leading figures in the field, elucidates the psychodynamics of these processes in the context of impairment of dependent relationships and of eating disorders in both men and women. This is a timely and brilliant account of an area of psychopathology that is rapidly growing in significance. The author provides a subtle understanding of some of the obstacles, which stand in the way of patients seeking and receiving therapeutic help Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies explores the problems which arise in forming and sustaining intimate relationships. This book is based on Gianna Williams' work over many years in the Tavistock Clinic, including work in the Eating Disorders Workshop of the Adolescent Department.

Contents:

COVER; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Inner World of the Child; Chapter 2 Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children; Chapter 3 Double Deprivation; Chapter 4 On Gang Dynamics; Chapter 5 Self-Esteem and Object Esteem; Chapter 6 On the Process of Internalisation; Chapter 7 Poor Feeders; Chapter 8 Reversal of the 'ContainerIContained' Relationship; Chapter 9 The No-Entry System of Defences; Chapter 10 On Introjective Processes; Chapter 11 Foreign Bodies; Bibliography; End Note; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.

ISBN:

0-429-91508-X

0-429-90085-6

0-429-47608-6

1-283-06844-3

9786613068446

1-84940-242-6

9780429476082

OCLC:

723944550