Psychoanalysis and the unconscious
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Dark feelings will haunt us until they are expressed in words
Continued mental growth requires dealing with alexithymia, or the inability to express emotions through words or images
by Tom Wooldridge
The body and physical health
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Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and feel a lot happier about food
Practise ‘intuitive eating’ and free yourself from worrying about food and the ricochet between dieting and indulging in it
by Charlotte H Markey
Eating disorders
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Body image distortions are a normal feature of mental life
Body image distortions can be severe in anorexia nervosa and bulimia, but they’re also a normal feature of mental life
by Matthew R Longo
Eating disorders
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When fear grew in my stomach, I starved myself just to survive
Hungry to survive an abusive childhood, I stopped eating. Years later, I learned the name of my eating disorder
by Nataliya Deleva