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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Eating disorders, childhood sexual abuse, and the link between them; Introduction; 1 Eating disorders; The definition of eating disorders; The history of eating disorders; The aetiology of eating disorders; Eating disorders and gender; A chronicle of an eating disorder: listening to women's voices; Anorexia; Natasha: 'The repertoire of what I eat is more like that of autistic children'; Grace: 'Every time I stepped on the scales and saw that I'd lost weight, it was the greatest feeling in the world' |
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Lily: 'If I'm thin I'll be less disgusting'Shirley: 'People on the outside don't understand, but it's amazing'; Bulimia; Liliana: 'I didn't throw up calories. I threw up myself, from inside myself'; Debby: 'It's a cunning, accursed disease, it's like cancer'; Bingeing; Naomi: 'This fat is what protects me'; Orna: 'Eating and filling something that's broken inside'; 2 Childhood sexual abuse: from witchcraft and hysteria to CPTSD; The clinical picture of childhood sexual abuse; An historical review of childhood sexual abuse; A chronicle of childhood sexual abuse; Natasha: father-daughter incest |
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Liliana: older brother-younger sister incestLiora: grandfather-granddaughter incest; Maggie: father-daughter incest; 3 The relation between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders: a meta-view of the professional literature; The rates of correlation between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders -- Research and clinical assessments; Theoretical and clinical explanations of the link -- A review of the professional literature; 4 Women speak of the association between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders; Women talk about the association |
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Is there a link between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders?'Of course there's a connection'; Denial of the link; Eating disorders as a 'disguised language of secrets too terrible for words'; Eating disorders as an expression of self-blame, self-destruction, and self-harm; Eating disorders as a form of slow suicide and a way of being rid of the exploited body; Eating disorders as self-destruction and self-punishment: 'To strike the sin I didn't commit'; Eating disorders as an illusion of regaining control; Eating disorders as a way of 'self-medicating' the damage caused by the abuse |
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Food, eating, and sexual abuseNot eating as a way of recalling elements of the abuse; 5 Eating disorders in the service of dissociation; Dissociation and dissociative disorders; Childhood sexual abuse and dissociation; Eating disorders and dissociation; Women speak of eating disorders as a way of dissociating; Eating disorders and dissociative amnesia; Eating disorders and depersonalization; Eating disorders and identity confusion; Eating disorders and dissociative identity disorder; Eating disorders as addiction and distraction: 'It's instead of feeling' |
| Summary |
Foreign Bodies: Eating Disorders, Childhood Sexual Abuse, and Trauma-Informed Treatment addresses the association between eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse, proposing a new way of treating those suffering from eating disorders who were sexually abused as children. Based on testimonies of survivors of abuse who subsequently developed eating disorders, it offers a new form of diagnosis and treatment, arguing that the eating-disorder field often ignores the traumatic sources of eating disorders, leading to some treatment programs not being commensurate, and at times conflicting, with the principles of childhood sexual abuse treatment. The case studies used to highlight the link between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders are presented from the perspective of the women involved, in their own words. Their voices are supplemented by Gur's own stance as a clinician specializing in the treatment of sexual abuse and CPTSD. The book is divided into three parts: the first deals with eating disorders, childhood sexual abuse, and the association between them; the second examines the treatment of eating disorders and childhood sexual abuse; and the third offers a new form of diagnosis and treatment for eating disorders. This book will be of great interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the eating disorder field of psychotherapy, psychology, or psychiatry, plus those studying the treatment of trauma. It will also be of interest to clinical dieticians, psychologists, social workers, doctors, nurses, eating disorder specialists, and policymakers in the mental health field, as well as eating disorders sufferers and those who care for them |
| Notes |
Introduction PART ONE: EATING DISORDERS, CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE, AND THE LINK BETWEEN THEM Chapter 1: Eating disorders Chapter 2: Childhood sexual abuse--From witchcraft and hysteria to CPTSD Chapter 3: The relation between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders: A meta-view of the professional literature Chapter 4: Women speak of the association between childhood sexual abuse and eating disorders Chapter 5: Eating disorders in the service of dissociation Chapter 6: The betrayed/betraying body: Eating disorders as ways of coping with the feminine body, sex, and sexuality in the wake of childhood sexual abuse PART TWO: TREATMENT OF EATING DISORDERS AND CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE Chapter 7: Treating eating disorders Chapter 8: Specialist sexual-abuse treatment PART THREE: A NEW DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PROPOSAL Chapter 9: Women, "madness, " and a new diagnosis Chapter 10: Treating CPTSD Chapter 11: Eating disorders, CPTSD, and appropriate treatment Epilogue Appendix: Dawn's story |
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Eating disorders.
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Child sexual abuse -- Psychological aspects
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Feeding and Eating Disorders
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Child sexual abuse -- Psychological aspects
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Eating disorders
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429893957 |
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0429893957 |
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9780429893964 |
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0429893965 |
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9780429893940 |
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0429893949 |
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9780429470516 |
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0429470517 |
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