Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies

by Williams,Gianna

• ISBN13: 9780415920797
• ISBN10: 0415920795
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-05-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this timely and brilliant account of an area of self-destructive behavior that is rapidly growing in significance, the distinguished clinician Gianna Williams draws on the work of Melanie Klein and Wilfred Bion and case studies of many of her patients to discuss the psychodynamics and treatment of eating disorders. Williams covers eating disorders in both men and women from infancy through adulthood, framing the discussion in terms of Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained, and Klein's model of projective and introjective processes. These studies rigorously and broadly apply today's most highly contested and influential concepts to the clinical setting.

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(1)
Acknowledgements	8	(1)
Author's Note	8	(1)
Introduction	9	(6)
1. The Inner World of the Child	15	(10)
2. Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children	25	(8)
3. Double Deprivation	33	(18)
4. On Gang Dynamics	51	(12)
5. Self-Esteem and Object Esteem	63	(14)
6. On the Process of Internalisation	77	(12)
7. Poor Feeders	89	(14)
8. Reversal of the 'Container/Contained' Relationship	103	(12)
9. The No-Entry System of Defences: Reflections on the Assessment of Adolescents Suffering from Eating Disorders	115	(8)
10. On Introjective Processes: The Hypothesis of an 'Omega Function'	123	(10)
11. Foreign Bodies	133	(18)
Bibliography	151	(4)
End Note	155	(2)
Index	157