Cheryl Fuller

The Fat Lady Sings

A Psychological Exploration of the Cultural Fat Complex and its Effects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the so-called War on Obesity as an example of a cultural complex, how that complex shapes the way fat is treated in psychotherapy, including the classical Jungian approach to fat, as written by Marion Woodman. It looks at the experience of being fat as an ongoing trauma.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781782204978
• ISBN-10: 1782204970
• Artikelnr.: 45640995

Autorenporträt

Fuller, Cheryl

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The silent woman
Life in the panopticon
The war on obesity: a cultural complex at work
When a body meets a body: fat enters the consulting room
Dancing with Marion Woodman: searching for meaning
Woodman, my mother, and me
Woodman and anger, food, eating, and control
A last look at Woodman
Memory, shame, and the fat body
pulling it all together
My body, my self: toward a theory of fat and trauma
Back to the consulting room: blind spots and remedies
Coming out as fat