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Eating Disorders and Magical Control of the Body: Treatment through Art Therapy
By Mary Levens
152 pages
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- Routledge
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- New York
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Synopsis
People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature as well as psychoanalysis, she discusses the significance ...
People with eating disorders often make desparate attempts to exert magical control over their bodies in response to the threats they experienced in relationships. Mary Levens takes the reader into the realm of magical thinking and its effect on ideas about eating and the body through a sensitive exploration of the images patients create in art therapy, in which themes of cannibalism constantly recur. Drawing on anthropology, religion and literature as well as psychoanalysis, she discusses the significance of these images and their implications for treatment of patients with eating disorders.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Introduction vii
- Chapter 1 - Introduction to Magic 1
- Chapter 2 - Magic and Eating 17
- Chapter 3 - Magical Control of the Body 25
- Chapter 4 - Body Boundaries in Patients with Eating Disorders 35
- Chapter 5 - Eating and the Body and Eating the Body 49
- Chapter 6 - Body Boundaries with Relation to Art 67
- Chapter 7 - Art and Psychic Cannibalism 79
- Chapter 8 - The Therapeutic Relationship 87
- Chapter 9 - Why Art? 103
- Chapter 10 - Conclusion 117
- References 131
- Index 135