Anorexia Nervosa and the Analyst’s Paternal Function: Response to Schoen, Zerbe, and Boulware

Tom Wooldridge, Psy.D., ABPP, CEDS, is Chair in the Department of Psychology at Golden Gate University and is in private practice in Berkeley, California. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics such as eating disorders, masculinity, technology, and psychoanalytic treatment. His book, Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males, was published by Routledge in 2016, and his edited book, Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak, is forthcoming in the Relational Perspectives book series. He is an advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.
Correspondence should be addressed to Tom Wooldridge, Psy.D., ABPP, CEDS, Golden Gate University, Department of Psychology, 536 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. E-mail: