The Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is usually interpreted in organicistic and physiological terms. This paper looks at it dynamically in terms of the psychic dimension of the patient through an examination of the contrasting tensions (emptiness and fullness; saving and destroying the object, etc.) that are the unconscious cause of his NES. A relationship is suggested between nocturnal reawakenings as a form of eating behaviour and the undreamt or avoided dreams used by the patient as a defence against "perception" of the unconscious.
A psychodynamic hypothesis on the night eating syndrome / Cavaggioni, Gabriele. - In: EATING AND WEIGHT DISORDERS. - ISSN 1124-4909. - STAMPA. - 4:1(1999), pp. 15-18.
A psychodynamic hypothesis on the night eating syndrome.
CAVAGGIONI, Gabriele
1999
Abstract
The Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is usually interpreted in organicistic and physiological terms. This paper looks at it dynamically in terms of the psychic dimension of the patient through an examination of the contrasting tensions (emptiness and fullness; saving and destroying the object, etc.) that are the unconscious cause of his NES. A relationship is suggested between nocturnal reawakenings as a form of eating behaviour and the undreamt or avoided dreams used by the patient as a defence against "perception" of the unconscious.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.