ABSTRACT
In this article, I attempt to describe in detail the eating disorders of anorexia and bulimia. Although often lumped together as the same kind of eating-disordered pathology, I explore, in part by using my personal experience, how their origins and symptoms are different and why their psychoanalytic treatment modalities need to be responsive to these differences.
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Emily Elder
Emily Elder graduated from Colorado College in 2016 with a major in Neuroscience and a minor in Psychoanalysis. She went on to do mental health policy and advocacy work for the state of Colorado, and now is working on funding solutions for the world’s biggest problems—from human trafficking to climate change—with the Suddes Group.