THE OVERWEIGHT PATIENT
This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive advice on methods for increasing patients' 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...
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This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive advice on methods for increasing patients' 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 gain. She provides a clear and accessible introduction to the theory of Transactional Analysis psychotherapy and details how this approach is particularly effective for use with overweight people, and as a self-help methodology.Illustrated with patient histories, exercises and worked examples of techniques, this book enables therapists and health practitioners to help obese people to understand why they reach for food or maintain a large body weight, and to change their eating behaviour or live more comfortably with their size.About the Author:Kathy Leach is a clinical transactional analyst who specializes in psychotherapy for the overweight and people who overeat
1Obesity and therapy132Cultural and parent influences on decisions regarding weight233Clinical considerations in working with the overweight patient314Losing weight, maintaining loss and regaining weight435Inquiry and diagnosis536Ego states777The parent ego state858The child ego state1099The adult ego state14710Psychological hungers16311Games18712The creation of the body and eating functions as defence structures229
