Preoccupation with food may appear as helpless dependent clinging to parents, or as a hostile rejection of them. 1, 4 Hamburger, on the basis of psychoanalytic investigation of obese patients, reported also that symbolically food may carry an enormous variety of different, often contradictory, connotations. 16, 17 These often very gifted young people grasped psycho-dynamic relationships with amazing ease, and they would acquire an extensive psychoanalytic vocabulary. They had a great tendency to remain basically unaffected by analysis, or to relapse after dramatic improvement. ... They were...

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