Obesity- Psychodynamic

Question 0

How can childhood trauma influence obesity

Answer 0

Relationship between traumatic childhood experiences and obesity
Traumatic event can be repressed into unconscious mind and can manifest itself in over eating and obesity
There is a relationship between the history of abuse and sleep eating

Question 1

How can oral fixation influence obesity

Answer 1

Results from unresolved conflicts during oral stage of psychosexual development
Freud says if an individual experiences excessive pleasure or trauma at stage can manifest it’s self in oral activities

Question 2

Research into psychodynamic

Answer 2

Felliti

Question 3

What did Felliti do

Answer 3

Case studies
5 examples of sleep eating
One 25 year old female dieted from 410 to 132 and ate back to 400
She had a history of being molested

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

Not all obese have suffered childhood trauma

Obesity has increase whereas no evidence unresolved conflicts have