Conversations with Anorexics: A Compassionate and Hopeful Journey through the Therapeutic Process - Softcover

Hilde Bruch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568212615 ISBN 13: 9781568212616

Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1994

Synopsis

From Publisher's Weekly: This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work, taped by the author before her death in 1984. Bruch makes the reader privy to the therapeutic transaction between her patients who are in what she describes as "the relentless pursuit of thinness.'' Emphasizing the conversational ambiance of the therapy and discounting heretofore unsuccessful approaches of psychoanalysis and behavior modification, she helped her patients to heal. The dramatic dialogues in the cases presented allow us to hear these desperate young anorexic women individually explore their thwarted development, under the direction of a compassionate physician who guides them towards wellness.

About this title

About the Author:

Hilde Bruch was Professor of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the author of several books, including "Eating Disorders".

From Publishers Weekly:

This posthumous collection of case material illustrates the treatment modality successfully employed by psychiatrist Bruch with patients suffering from the eating disorder of anorexia. Two of her associates at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have edited this final work, taped by the author before her death in 1984. Bruch makes the reader privy to the therapeutic transaction between her patients who are in what she describes as "the relentless pursuit of thinness." Emphasizing the conversational ambiance of the therapy and discounting heretofore unsuccessful approaches of psychoanalysis and behavior modification, she helped her patients to heal. The dramatic dialogues in the cases presented allow us to hear these desperate young anorexic women individually explore their thwarted development, under the direction of a compassionate physician who guides them towards wellness.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1568212615
• ISBN 13: 9781568212616
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Danita Czyzewski, Melanie A. Suhr