Anorexia, psychoanalysis, and feminism: fantasy and reality.
Two distinct trends inform current psychoanalytic and feminist approaches to anorexia: one focuses on its roots in the fantasy, the other in the reality of childhood and adolescent deprivation and abuse. In outlining these two approaches, this article shows how both increasingly attend to the place of the mother to the neglect of the father in the genesis of anorexia--a shift of perspective somewhat redressed by systemic family therapy.
Sayers
J
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Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K.
D000328:Adult; D000855:Anorexia / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005196:Family Therapy; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012737:Sex Factors