This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients' sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. "The Overweight Patient" explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. Kathy Leach draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses the reasons for both long-term obesity and short-term weight gain. She provides a clear and accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis, and details how this approach can be used with overweight people. Illustrated with patient histories, exercises and worked examples of techniques, this book enables therapists and health practitioners to help obese people come to terms with their size, or to support their decision to change their behaviour and reduce their need to eat.
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Kathy Leach is a clinical transactional analyst who specialises in psychotherapy for the overweight and people who overeat. She teaches on MA courses and runs training and workshops on working with overeating and obesity for both trainee and qualified practitioners in the caring professions.
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After years of struggling with weight issues & being shamed by doctors - I stumbled on this wonderful book. It guides the reader into greater self-awareness, & provides insights that are sorely lacking in most texts, weight-loss groups, or doctors' advice. It has completely changed my understanding of this complex problem. Highly recommended reading for those struggling with obesity.
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ego state energy, transactional diagram, slimming group, psychological hungers, child ego state, parent introjects, many obese patients, other ego states, script beliefs, psychotherapeutic journey, slimming clubs, biological hunger, negative strokes, fat clown, degree games, treatment direction, script decisions, overweight patient, large body size, positive strokes, internalized parent, psychological message Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Collected Works of C.G. Jung: General Bibliography of C.G. Jung's Writings (Vol 19) by C.G. Jung in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy by Eric Berne on page 77, and Back Matter
- Changing Lives Through Redecision Therapy by Mary McClure Goulding in Back Matter
- A Family Affair (Harlequin Superromance No. 205) by Sandra James in Back Matter
- The Secret Language of Eating Disorders by Peggy Claude-Pierre in Back Matter
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