Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives, this book explores relationships with other people, with ourselves and between client and therapist, through our connection with food. The aim of this book is twofold: to examine the nature of attachment through narratives of feeding, and to enrich psychotherapy practice by encouraging exploration of clients’ food-related memories and associations.
Key Features
- Contributions from an experienced group of psychotherapists.
- Examination of how our connections with food shape our patterns of attachment and defence.
- Discussion on a spectrum from "secure attachment" to avoidant, preoccupied, and disorganised, including eating disorders.
- Enriched throughout with diverse clinical case studies.
- Illuminates how relationships to food can provide insight for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and counselling therapists.
Additional Information
Bringing together contributions from an experienced group of psychotherapists, the chapters examine how our connections with food shape our patterns of attachment and defence, how this influences appetite, self-feeding (or self-starving) and how we may then feed others.
This edited collection illuminates how relationships to food can be a rich source of insight and understanding for psychotherapists, psychoanalysts and other counselling therapists working today.
