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This practical guide approaches obesity and overeating from a psychological perspective, and offers sensitive methods to increase patients' sense of self-worth, self-knowledge, and motivation to lose weight. "The Overweight Patient" explores the underlying beliefs and behaviours that may contribute to obesity, including psychological needs, addiction, fear of deprivation, parental influences and sexual fears. Kathy Leach draws a useful distinction between the need to eat and the need to maintain a large body size, and addresses the reasons for both long-term obesity and short-term weight gain. She provides a clear and accessible introduction to the psychoanalytic theory of transactional analysis, and details how this approach can be used with overweight people. Illustrated with patient histories, exercises and worked examples of techniques, this book enables therapists and health practitioners to help obese people come to terms with their size, or to support their decision to change their behaviour and reduce their need to eat.

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Kathy Leach is a clinical transactional analyst who specialises in psychotherapy for the overweight and people who overeat. She teaches on MA courses and runs training and workshops on working with overeating and obesity for both trainee and qualified practitioners in the caring professions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Overeating and Obesity Understood, 9 Jan 2007
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This book is both an invaluable tool to working with clients who suffer from overeating and obesity, and a compassionate insight into the worlds of those people who suffer. It strips away the all to often dominant prejudices surrounding the conditions and events leading to overeating and obesity, and offers insightful, practical and rewarding ways of working 'with' clinets towards their understanding and change.
Beautifully written, this book is accessible to both professionals and clients in what is an area that has been greatly misunderstood, and lacking in original professional research and insight. Highly recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Pause for thought for all who work with obese individuals, 6 Jul 2009
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Probably should be compulsory reading for all health professionals who work in the field of obesity management. I have found it hugely thought provoking in terms of the work I do daily, and am trying to see how much of the thinking can be incorporated into my own work.

Well worth a read.
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