Based on work done with teachers at the Tavistock Clinic in London, this book aims to be of help to teachers at every level of the education system from infant to tertiary.

Volume II of an edited collection that examines feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and adolescents. Volume II concentrates on eating disorders in adolescents up to the age of 19. It consists of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to treat the patients. The contributors look at the underlying causes for the disorders and the profound effects on the patients and their families and friends.

Volume I of an edited collection that examines feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and adolescents. Volume I concentrates on feeding difficulties in children from as young as five months. It consists of clinical cases that describe the process of psychoanalytic psychotherapy used to treat the patients. The contributors look at the underlying causes for the disorders and the profound effects on the patients and their families and friends.

Klein's model of projective and introjective processes and Bion's model of the relationship between container and contained have become increasingly significant in clinical work. Here, the author elucidates the psychodynamics of these processes in the context of eating disorders in both sexes.