Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation created and hosted by Shir Shanun, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytic open space for cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling in a free Zoom meeting. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. Please see our calendar of events. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
Psychoanalytic self psychology in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia
February 6, 2027 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
It is suggested that the fragility of the anorexic patient, her pathological conviction that she does not deserve that other people give up, even temporarily, their own point of view to meet her’s (in the language of self psychology – serving self-object needs for her) is addressed by the theory and technique of self psychology.
Self psychologically informed therapists are consistently trying to search for the patient’s subjectivity, sometimes while suspending their own reality testing for the sake of trying to interpret from “within”, from an experience near perspective. They wish to revive hopes in the patient that human beings, rather than food, can provide self-object experiences.
During the presentation, we will give clinical examples of the implementation of self psychological principles for the treatment of anorexia and bulimia. The examples are taken from our book:
Bachar, E., Verbin, A. (2020) “Psychodynamic Self Psychology in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia”. Routledge.
Research finding will be interwoven within the presentation of the theory and the clinical case illustrations.
*In the current presentation we will speak of anorexic patients in feminine pronouns since the vast majority of people with anorexia are female.
**The syndromes of anorexia and bulimia appear interchangeably in the person. More than 50% of bulimic patients were anorexic in their history, so the psychodynamics of the two disorders are very similar.
Presenter
Professor Eytan Bachar
Professor Eytan Bachar is an emeritus professor at the department of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
He is the president of the Israeli psychoanalytic self-psychological association. For 30 years, head of the center for research and treatment of eating disorders in a self psychological orientation, in Hadassa university medical center, Jerusalem.
Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation created and hosted by Shir Shanun, Psy.D. is a psychoanalytic open space for cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling in a free Zoom meeting. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis. Please see our calendar of events. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
Psychoanalytic self psychology in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia
February 6, 2027 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
It is suggested that the fragility of the anorexic patient, her pathological conviction that she does not deserve that other people give up, even temporarily, their own point of view to meet her’s (in the language of self psychology – serving self-object needs for her) is addressed by the theory and technique of self psychology.
Self psychologically informed therapists are consistently trying to search for the patient’s subjectivity, sometimes while suspending their own reality testing for the sake of trying to interpret from “within”, from an experience near perspective. They wish to revive hopes in the patient that human beings, rather than food, can provide self-object experiences.
During the presentation, we will give clinical examples of the implementation of self psychological principles for the treatment of anorexia and bulimia. The examples are taken from our book:
Bachar, E., Verbin, A. (2020) “Psychodynamic Self Psychology in the Treatment of Anorexia and Bulimia”. Routledge.
Research finding will be interwoven within the presentation of the theory and the clinical case illustrations.
*In the current presentation we will speak of anorexic patients in feminine pronouns since the vast majority of people with anorexia are female.
**The syndromes of anorexia and bulimia appear interchangeably in the person. More than 50% of bulimic patients were anorexic in their history, so the psychodynamics of the two disorders are very similar.
Presenter
Professor Eytan Bachar
Professor Eytan Bachar is an emeritus professor at the department of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
He is the president of the Israeli psychoanalytic self-psychological association. For 30 years, head of the center for research and treatment of eating disorders in a self psychological orientation, in Hadassa university medical center, Jerusalem.
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