Hunger for Connection: Finding Meaning in Eating Disorders

by Alitta Kullman

Who develops which eating disorder and why? When do eating disorders begin and what fuels them? In Hunger for Connection, psychoanalyst and eating-disorder specialist Alitta Kullman expands on the body/mind personality organization she calls the perseverant personality, illustrating how food and thought are linked from infancy, and for some, can become the primary source of nurturance and thought-processing for a lifetime--leading to what we call an eating disorder.



Writing in a highly accessible style, Kullman brings humor and gentleness to her interactions with patients, offering health professionals and mainstream readers alike an essential guide to understanding and/or working with cyclical eating disorders of all types. From psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, and counsellors, to eating disorder specialists, researchers, and students, Hunger for Connection not only provides guidelines for therapists of varying theoretical orientations and levels of expertise, but help and hope to people suffering with eating disorders and those who care for and about them.

Genres: Psychology

156 pages, ebook

Published January 12, 2018

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to anyone who is experiencing a perseverent eating disorder or who is entrusted with their care.

Kullman shares therapeutic narratives which are largely centered around bulimia. Kullman provides a vocabulary for the multifaceted components of an eating disorder. She provides a framework for how an eating disorder can be approached as a symptom for failed connections early on in life. This book is a fantastic tool for those looking to make more sense of their experiences with disordered eating, it provides realistic examples of candid therapeutic discourses. Which can contribute to ones own therapy as a model or affirmation in the process of healing.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gave me a greater understanding of eating disorders.