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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Anorexic Development - The Border Conflict
Children playfully explore their own limits through acts of refusing and accepting, swallowing and spitting out. In anorexic development, the metabolism regulating the traffic that crosses the borders of the self can become disturbed or at least highly conflictual. Anorexia is an attempt at a solution in a border conflict, aiming to gain command over that which most exposes one to the outside. The reasons for the border conflict can vary considerably. We will examine the functioning of the family and the unconscious relationship dynamics associated with it.
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