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KMID : 0607519950030020207
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Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
1995 Volume.3 No. 2 p.207 ~ p.213
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Psychoanalytic Aspect of Obesity
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Lee Moo-Suk
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Abstract
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Author reviewed psychodynamics and psychoanalytic treatment of obesity. A variety of psychodynamics and unconscious conflicts have been described in obese patients : eating as a defense against depression, eating as a substitute for maternal love, obese body as a larger penis, and eating as a self-soothing. There was a gross neglect of certain normal parenting roles in obese family. The parenatal superego structure was not as perfectionistic. As with children and other patients with preoedipal pathology, in obese patients the analyst in addition to being transference object is a new and different object who promote healthy maturation. Because of obese parients, in there projective identification, can provoke intense countertransference, the analyst have to consider it. On the other hand, many analysts’ countertransferences to superobese patients is that huge person recalls one’s own childhood relationship with adults and bring forth a feeling of helplessness.
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KEYWORD
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Obesity, Psychoanalysis, Psychodynamism
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