The Relational Montage of Eating Disorders
An Interpersonal Approach to Treatment
NOW CLOSED
Saturday 26 June 2021
A live webinar with Professor Jean Petrucelli
- This event will not be recorded
- Bookings close at 4.00am EDT Wednesday 23 June
When a person struggles with an eating problem, their relationship to food can read like a taboo love affair involving anticipation fuelled excitement, intimacy enveloped in secrecy, and disappointment and emptiness when it is over.
READ MORE...For sufferers of eating disorders, disavowed longings are experienced as insatiable, powerful, and dangerous, while their symptoms act as a defence against the dangers inherent in an intimate exchange – something which requires a tolerance for uncertainty and vulnerability beyond patients’ reach.
In this workshop, Professor Jean Petrucelli will present a detailed, practical exploration of how one works analytically with this group of patients. Such an approach goes beyond symptom alleviation by seeking to understand the plethora of interwoven factors that may lie beneath, such as cultural influences, neurobiology, attachment theory, self and affect regulation, self-states, body-states, and the intergenerational transmission of body image. It allows time for issues of desire, appetite, relatedness, and body obsession to be explored in order to enter this ritual-filled world. The work contains clinical conundrums in reaching these often “unreachable” patients; it examines complicated negotiations between direct interventions, and space for the symptoms to communicate feelings.
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