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It is with great pleasure that I write this editorial to a new Special Issue of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy on the topic of eating disorders, a subject that was previously addressed in volume 18, no. 4, in 2004.
All the papers in this issue are based on work written in connection with the MA course, Working with people with eating disorders, delivered at the Tavistock Clinic in collaboration with the University of East London.
The students who study on this programme mostly work as clinicians in specialist eating disorder units. They are nurses, psychologists, dieticians and occasionally psychotherapists. Our team at the Tavistock comprises Gianna Williams, Roberta Mondadori, Selina Perocevic and myself; adult, adolescent, child and infant psychotherapists.
Our Tavistock course does not seek to ‘convert’ our students to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. We just try to use our psychoanalytic understanding to help the students to make sense of the very difficult work they do. This Issue, I hope, shows that we are ‘on task’. The papers speak for themselves.
Many thanks to Geraldine Shipton for her commitment to this project and for her work with me on this issue.