
Episode 29: The Anorexic Dynamic. Or: Why eating disorders are not about the food
Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
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The Anorexic Dynamic in Therapy
The anorexic dynamic can also take over a therapy and lead to a serious dilemma. The relationship between analyst and analysis is less about mutual understanding, and instead increasingly becomes a matter of tug-of-war and negotiations. Sometimes it only appears that the therapeutic nourishment is being ingested, instead of being swallowed,. It is kept secretly in the mouth, only to be spit out later after the session. And then, once again, as if everything that had apparently been worked through just disappeared. In the most dramatic of cases, having to act in order to save a life.
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