Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Eating Disorders in Children and Young People

<p>This important book shows how psychotherapy can address severe eating disorders in children and young people illustrating the ways an imprisoned self can be released from suffering. </p><p>The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm hallucinations and the threat of suicide as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders it places therapy within hospital clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams. </p><p>Written by an eminent author in the field this will be a key text for anyone wishing to understand eating disorders in children from a psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic dimension.</p>