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GAS 2005 Symposium Paper

Special Section: From Calorie-Counting to Relationships

Elizabeth A. Reilly

NHS Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, UK, lizanner45{at}hotmail.com

Beginning with the notion that eating disorders have become the typical ailment of our generation, the author discusses key developments within the contemporary multi-theoretical literature leading to an emerging focus on the role of inter-personal relationships within the psychopathology. Within this, attention is narrowed to a restricted obsessional and concretized repertoire of food which severely limits inter-personal functioning and the capacity for reflection on the same, producing a quasi-symbiotic picture. Following Foulkes’s ideas on open communication, the author details her work with this client group in a short-term group-analytic group and how this relates to multi-disciplinary work that itself derived principally from cognitive behavioural methodologies. The value of such short-term interventions is stressed with this client group, as is its place within the wider organizational context.

Key Words: anorexia • bulimia • cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) • short-term analytic groups • communication

Group Analysis, Vol. 39, No. 3, 375-389 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316406066603
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