Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction
Part I: Addictive Economies
Chapter 1: The Psychic Economy of Addiction
Joyce McDougall
Chapter 2: Addictive Economies: Intrapsychic and Interpersonal
Discussion of McDougall's Chapter
Catherine Stuart
Part II: Expanding the Analytic Space: Dissociation and the
Eating-Disordered Patient
Chapter 3: Thinking, Talking, and Feeling in Psychotherapy with
Eating-Disordered Individuals
F. Diane Barth
Chapter 4: The Instigation of Dare: Broadening Therapeutic
Horizons
Judith Brisman
Chapter 5: Out of Body, Out of Mind, Out of Danger: Some
Reflections on Shame, Dissociation, and Eating Disorders
Philip M. Bromberg
Chapter 6: On Preferring Not To: The Aesthetics of Defiance
Adam Phillips
Part III: On Being Stuck: Enactments, Mutuality, and
Self-Regulation with Eating-Disordered Patients
Chapter 7: Close Encounters of the Regulatory Kind: An
Interpersonal/Relational Look at Self-Regulation
Jean Petrucelli
Chapter 8: "No Matter How Hard I Try, I Can't Get through to You!":
Dissociated Affect in a Stalled Enactment
Frances Sommer Anderson
Chapter 9: The Destabilizing Dyad: Psychoanalytic Affective
Engagement and Growth
Emily Kuriloff
Chapter 10: Narrative, Affect, and Therapeutic Impasse: Discussion
of Part III
Lewis Aron
Part IV: To Eat or Not to Eat: The Psychic Meanings of the
Decision
Chapter 11: The Male Experience of Food as Symbol and
Sustenance
Margaret Crastnopol
Chapter 12: The Meaning of the "Body" in the Treatment of
Eating-Disordered Patients
Ann Kearney-Cooke
Chapter 13: The Armored Self: The Symbolic Significance of
Obesity
Stefanie Solow Glennon
Chapter 14: When the Self Starves: Alliance and Outcome in the
Treatment of Eating Disorders
Kathryn J. Zerbe
Part V: Creativity and Addiction
Chapter 15: Melancholia and Addiction?
Joerg Bose
Chapter 16: The Anxiety of Creativity
Olga Cheselka
Chapter 17: Creativity, Genius, and Divine Madness
Edgar A. Levenson
Chapter 18: the Muse in the Bottle
Albert Rothenberg
Part VI: Desires and Addictions
Chapter 19: Attending to Sexual Compulsivity in a Gay Man
Jack Drescher
Chapter 20: In the Grip of Passion: Love or Addiction? On a
Specific Kind of Masochistic Enthrallment
Darlene Bregman Ehrenberg
Chapter 21: From Impulsivity to Paralysis: Thoughts on the
Continuous Pursuit and Thwarting of Desire
Jill Howard
Chapter 22: A Philosophical Assessment of Happiness, Addiction, and
Transference
M. Guy Thompson
Part VII: Winnicott and Masud Khan: A Study of Addiction and
Self-Destruction
Chapter 23: Masud Khan's Descent into Alcoholism
Linda B. Hopkins
Chapter 24: Winnicott's Complex Relationship to Hate and
Hatefulness
Marcia Rosen
Chapter 25: The Outrageous Prince: The Uncure of Masud Khan
Dodi Goldman
Chapter 26: Further Thoughts on the Winnicott-Khan Analysis
Lawrence Epstein
Index
Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D., F.P.P.R., is co-founder and co-director of Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse Service, and is supervisor of psychotherapy, teaching faculty, William Alanson White Institute. Catherine Stuart, Ph.D., is co-founder and co-director of Eating Disorders and Substance Abuse Service, and supervising analyst, teaching faculty, William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Stuart is also on faculty at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.
Hungers and Compulsions, written primarily by colleagues who
espouse an interpersonal/relational perspective, will be of
interest to clinicians who follow other approaches as well. The
reader is offered vivid accounts of close encounters with very
challenging patients. Two leitmotifs of the book are the place of
insight vs. affective engagement in the curative process, and the
love-hate relationship with Freud and Ferenczi that many
psychotherapists share. The final section on the ill-starred
Winnicott/Khan relationship is a timely coda.
*Arnold D. Richards M.D., editor, Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Assocation*
Petrucelli and Stuart bring together a diverse set of
psychoanalytic and psychodynamic writers who address the issues of
eating disorders, compulsions, and addictions from multiple
perspectives. The authors focus on clinical material and explore
psychoanalytically informed treatment. For a clinician working with
any of the identified disorders or issues in this book, these
collected writings can help inform their clinical practice and
expand their knowledge of treatment.
*Contemporary Psychology: The Apa Review Of Books*
This book offers a wise, often inspired, guide to the treatment of
patients who present with eating disorders and other addictive
behavior. Any clinician can learn from this inside view of the
demands that working with this difficult group of patients places
on their therapists. And the book is more, because taken together
the chapters constitute a discourse on fundamental questions about
human desire and will, and about our need to live authentically and
creatively. I recommend it highly to everyone interested in
treating eating disordered patients and to everyone who wants to
understand the thinking of contemporary relationally oriented
psychoanalysts and psychotherapists.
*Jay Greenberg, Ph.D., training and supervising analyst, The
William Alanson White Institute*
This is a marvelous collection; its important insights continue to
inspire and inform. It challenges overly simplistic understandings
of the deep human needs and profound psychic pain embodied in
people’s struggles with eating disorders and addictions. It reminds
us how this pain is compounded when it goes unaddressed and
unrecognized. And it provides clinicians across disciplines with
creative ways to think anew about how we can be there for our
patients.
*Susie Orbach, Psychoanalyst, writer, author of Fat is a Feminist
Issue*
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