The Overweight Patient
The Overweight Patient

The Overweight Patient

A Psychological Approach to Understanding and Working with Obesity

JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERSISBN: 9781843103660
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By Kathy Leach
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Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 272

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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.

Foreword. Introduction: A choice to lose weight or not. SECTION I. 1. Background and Overview. 2. Cultural and Parental Influences. 3. The clinical implications of knowing who is overweight and how this is decided. 4. Common Intra-psychic Beliefs and Behavioural Experiences. 5. Transactional Analysis. Section II. 6. Weight loss and Maintenance. 7. Inquiry and diagnosis. 8. Ego states. 9. The Parent Ego state. 10. The Child Ego state. 11. The Adult Ego state. 12. Psychological Hungers. 13. Psychological Games. 14. Developmental Analysis. References.

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