Kathy Leach

The Overweight Patient

A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. The author draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses both LT obesity and ST weight gain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781843103660
• ISBN-10: 1843103664
• Artikelnr.: 21901627

Autorenporträt

Kathy Leach is a clinical transactional analyst who specialises in psychotherapy for the overweight and people who overeat. She teaches on MA courses and runs training and workshops on working with overeating and obesity for both trainee and qualified practitioners in the caring professions.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Introduction: A choice to lose weight or not. Section I.
1.Background and Overview. 2. Cultural and Parental Influences. 3. The
clinical implications of knowing who is overweight and how this is decided.
4. Common Intra-psychic Beliefs and Behavioural Experiences. 5.
Transactional Analysis. Section II. 6. Weight loss and Maintenance. 7.
Inquiry and diagnosis. 8. Ego states. 9. The Parent Ego state. 10. The
Child Ego state. 11. The Adult Ego state. 12. Psychological Hungers. 13.
Psychological Games. 14. Developmental Analysis. References.