Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body
Taylor & Francis

Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body

Edition: 1st Edition
Subjects: Medicine, Medicine
ISBN13: 9780415122177
Published: 28 Sep 1995

Format - Paperback / softback
By Mary Levens

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Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body

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Product description

People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature as well as psychoanalysis, she discusses the significance of these images and their implications for treatment of patients with eating disorders.

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