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Discussing Eating Disorders in NYC
I just returned home from the American Psychoanalytic Association Winter Meeting in New York City. Despite the cold and windy weather in the city, the conference was warm with rich conversation and invigorating clinical material from mental health professionals around the world.
Wednesday morning I was thrilled to attend a session led by Katherine Zerbe, author of many works on eating disorders and a well known psychoanalyst. Dr. Zerbe acknowledged the little understanding the field of eating disorders and psychoanalysis have paid to obesity and clients who binge eat. As she discussed clinical material she illustrated several intriguing points. She encouraged clinicians and clients alike to pay attention to their thoughts, beliefs and feelings associated with food. She illustrated the multiple roles and unconscious meanings food has to those who suffer from an eating disorder.
Understanding the many meanings (likely out of your awareness) food plays in the development and maintenance of your eating disorder may be key to unlocking recovery.
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