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II. Suicide and the Body

“The Obesity Alternative”

Pages 189-192
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Continuous exposure to invalidation (negation or distortion of reality) can bring about feelings of being crazy or fear of becoming crazy. It is hypothesized that as a defense, some people overeat to the point of obesity. A pilot study with twenty-eight subjects was carried out to investigate this hypothesis, and provided support for it.

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Maya Etkin

Maya Etkin, BA, MEd, RM, is a clinical member of AAMFT, and a marriage, family and individual therapist currently in private practice in Toronto, Canada.