Re-Thinking Eating Disorders: Language, Emotion, and the Brain

by Barbara Pearlman

Book Overview

In Re-Thinking Eating Disorders: Language, Emotion, and the Brain, Barbara Pearlman integrates ideas from psychoanalysis, developmental psychology and cutting-edge neuroscience to produce a model of neural emotional processing which may underpin the development of an eating disorder.

Based on clinical observations over 30 years, this book explores how state change from symbolic to concrete thinking may be a key event that precedes an eating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782205403
• ISBN13: 9781782205401
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"