Overweight Patient: Understanding the Psychology of Obesity

Foreword. Introduction: A choice to lose weight or not. SECTION I. 1. Background and Overview. 2. Cultural and Parental Influences. 3. The clinical implications of knowing who is overweight and how this is decided. 4. Common Intra-psychic Beliefs and Behavioural Experiences. 5. Transactional Analysis. Section II. 6. Weight loss and Maintenance. 7. Inquiry and diagnosis. 8. Ego states. 9. The Parent Ego state. 10. The Child Ego state. 11. The Adult Ego state. 12. Psychological Hungers. 13. Psychological Games. 14. Developmental Analysis. References.

This book is intended as a practical guide for therapists and counsellors who work with people who are obese, and where the obesity is acknowledge as an issue. This book adopts man original approach in developing TA as a tool for tackling obesity. The style is clear and easily grasped. Practice examples are illustrative and helpful.