The Overweight Patient

A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity

Kathy Leach

Paperback: £19.99 / $31.95

2006, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 272pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-366-0, BIC 2: MBNH3 MMJ MMJT MMZD MQU

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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.

Author information

• Kathy Leach

Subject areas

• Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• Mental Health
• Health, Social Work and Social Care

Keywords

• counselling,
• eating disorders,
• psychoanalysis,
• psychology,
• psychotherapy,
• social care,
• social work

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