Internal Landscapes and Foreign Bodies

Eating Disorders and Other Pathologies
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-32513-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Reihe: Tavistock Clinic Series

Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. In a highly imaginative development of these models of thought, the distinguished clinician Gianna Williams, one of the leading figures in the field, elucidates the psy

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Gianna

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors' Preface -- Author's Note -- Introduction -- The Inner World of the Child -- Thinking and Learning in Deprived Children -- Double Deprivation -- On Gang Dynamics -- Self-Esteem and Object Esteem -- On the Process of Internalisation -- Poor Feeders -- Reversal of the `Container/Contained' Relationship -- The No-Entry System of Defences -- On Introjective Processes -- Foreign Bodies

Über Autor(innen)

Gianna Williams trained as a child and adult therapist and was part of the teaching staff of the Tavistock Clinic in the 1970s and later Consultant Psychotherapist at the Adolescent Department of the Tavistock, where in 1987 she founded the Eating Disorders Workshop. She has taught at the Tavistock Clinic and University of East London, and the Universities of Pisa and Bologna and has founded numerous courses based on the Tavistock model in Italy, France and Latin America.