Binge/Compulsive Eating Workbook for Kids & Teens [Plastic Comb]

Anita Bohensky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2, 2003

Eating is a major part of our first relationship with another human being. Whether we are breast or bottle fed, we all have another human being who must deal with our need for nourishment from the very start. So eating is about need, nourishment, pleasure, and feelings, but most of all it is about our relationship with other human beings. And it is about how we respond to our feelings about our relationship with other human beings.

Our culture has a problem with eating. Not so much the act of eating itself, but the kinds of foods and the amount of such foods. Foods are everywhere, all the time. Restaurants serve huge portions of very rich and fattening foods. Magazines and television constantly bombard us with delicious looking foods. And every unhealthy type of food is so available to us that we seem to have forgotten how to restrain ourselves. That’s part of why we are such an overweight culture. But oddly enough, at the very same time, we are obsessed with physical beauty. Or more precisely, a particular, often unobtainable version of beauty. We, as a culture, no longer encourage our children to be accepting of who they are physically. Nor do we seem able to accept ourselves for who we are.

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About the Author

ANITA BOHENSKY, Ph.D., is Director/Founder of the Whole Child and Adolescent Center, Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Psychoanalyst. She is experienced in helping parents and their pre-school, school age or adolescent children resolve their problems.

Dr. Bohensky works to help children, adolescents and adults with:

· Learning Disabilities/ADD/ADHD
· Difficulties with Divorce and Separation
· Depression
· Anxiety Disorders
· Issues of Self-Esteem
· Physical, Emotional, or Sexual Trauma
· Anger Problems
· Eating Disorders

She is a graduate of New York University where she received her Doctor of Philosophy in Developmental Psychology. Her training is extensive having received a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy from the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York, N.Y. She also has extensive experience working with, and has been involved in numerous research projects related to, the emotional and social development of children. Dr. Bohensky has been a Consultant in Learning Disabilities/Attention Deficit Disorder/and Childhood Psychopathology at New York Foundling Hospital, Abbott House in Rockland and Westchester

Counties, and SUNY Learning Disability Division. This led to her enthusiastic interest in the learning, developmental disabilities and anger management problems of children and adolescents.

Dr. Bohensky has an abiding interest in the psychoanalytic basis of behavior, which underlies her work as Faculty member, Supervisor and Training Analyst at Psychotherapy Institutes in New York City and New Jersey. Besides her work at the Whole Child and Adolescent Center, she is presently a Supervisor and Assistant Professor at Columbia University, Teachers College and maintains a private practice in New York City and Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 130 pages
• Publisher: Growth Pub; 1 Workbook edition (January 2, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893505200
• ISBN-13: 978-1893505209
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,810,597 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)