Food for thought : perspectives on eating disorders
Title:
Food for thought : perspectives on eating disorders
Author:
Savelle-Rocklin, Nina, author.
ISBN:
9781442246010
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Abstract:
Food for Thought offers fresh psychoanalytic insights into treating clients with eating disorders. In lively and jargon-free language, Nina Savelle-Rocklin breaks down the psychoanalytic approach to give practitioners and general readers alike a deeper understanding of the theory and effective treatment of eating disorders to achieve lasting change and true healing.
Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Desire's Dissonance; Chapter One Introduction: Desire's Dissonance ; Part II Defining Desire; Chapter Two Finding and Then Losing Your Way: Eros and the Other in Greek Literature and Philosophy ; The Myth; The Story; Angels and Demons; Sex and Sexuality; Tragedy and Comedy; Mortals and Immortals; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Three Love, and a Romantic Living Room: Remarks for an Inquiry on Ordinary Love Today ; Understanding an Understanding of Love.
What Is a Living Room? Pros and Cons of a Minimal DefinitionThe Importance of Being Ordinary; Contemporary Patterns: Some Introductory Remarks; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Four Love at the Limit of Phenomenology (à la Sartre and Marion); I. The Transcendental Question: How Does Love Appear?; II. Decentering Reflection: From Being to Event; III. Crossing, or: Not One but Two; IV. The Appearance of a World; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Five Monogamism and Polyamorism: A Weberian Analysis ; Ideal Types; Ideal Types of Monogamism and Polyamorism; Conclusion; Notes.
Feminist Love and Serious ActivismThe Politics of the Erotic and Pussy Riot's Project of Bringing Joy; Anger and Love; Conclusion; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Eight Paradox in Practice: What We Can Learn about Love from Relationships between Parents and Young Adult Children ; Ontology; Epistemology; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Part IV Embodiment and Culture; Chapter Nine Orchid Love; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Ten Failed Medicalization and the Cultural Iconography of Feminine Sexuality; What is Medicalization and When Is It Appropriate?; Big Pharma and the Hard Phallus.
Female Sexual Dysfunction: The State of the ScienceThe Failure of the Attempt to Medicalize Female Sexuality; Imagining Female Sexuality and the Myth of Feminine Mystery; Female Sexuality in the Scientific Imagination; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter Eleven Being Through Love: The Collaborative Construction of a Sexual Body ; Introduction; Merleau-Ponty and the Sexual Body; Schneider; Normative Sexuality; Normative Bodies; Alternative Sexualities; The Event of Sexuality; Sex as Imaginative Play; "Passivity" in the Creation of Sexuality; Passing, Acceptance, and Love; IV. Conclusion.