| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients and rsquo; sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. The Overweight Patient explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. Kathy Leach draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses the reasons for both long-term obesity and short-term weight g. |
| Contents |
The Overweight Patient; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Obesity and Therapy; 2 Cultural and Parent Influences on Decisions Regarding Weight; 3 Clinical Considerations in Working with the Overweight Patient; 4 Losing Weight, Maintaining Loss and Regaining Weight; 5 Inquiry and Diagnosis; 6 Ego States; 7 The Parent Ego State; 8 The Child Ego State; 9 The Adult Ego State; 10 Psychological Hungers; 11 Games; 12 The Creation of the Body and Eating Functions as Defence Structures; GLOSSARY OF CLINICAL AND TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS TERMS; REFERENCES; RECOMMENDED READING; SUBJECT INDEX. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Overweight persons -- Psychology.
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Obesity -- Psychological aspects.
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Obesity -- Treatment.
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Transactional analysis.
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Obesity -- psychology.
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Obesity -- therapy.
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Obesity.
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MEDICAL -- Bariatrics.
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Obesity -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01042755
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Obesity -- Treatment.
(OCoLC)fst01042765
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Overweight persons -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01049467
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Transactional analysis. (OCoLC)fst01154512
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Leach, Kathy, 1949- Overweight patient. London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley, 2006 1843103664 (DLC) 2006004145 (OCoLC)63680028 |
| ISBN |
9781846425202 (electronic bk.) |
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1846425204 (electronic bk.) |
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