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The original material for this clinical commentary is from work with a patient with an eating disorder. I am very grateful to our anonymous contributor for very full and thought-provoking material, as well as the generosity and trust involved in sharing the difficulties of psychotherapeutic work with a wider audience through publication. The commentaries are as usual chosen to give an idea of work from different orientations, this time from two therapists working at the Women's Therapy Centre (which, of course, has a considerable reputation for work in this field, each therapist coming from different original trainings), from a Jungian analyst, and a Kleinian child and adult psychotherapist.
The themes of femininity and masculinity, and difficulties in being able to take in good experience within a relationship naturally emerge in all the commentaries, as does the commonality of being able to devote sufficient time to the exploration of the patient's thoughts, which is one of the hall-marks of psychoanalytic work. However it is possible to see the different emphases placed by the therapists, and to see how the diameter of the container, or the distance between patient and therapist, seems to vary according to the concepts which come most readily to mind.
Katherine Arnold