The Shadow of the Body (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781067165635)

Your weight has been carrying something. Your unconscious knows what.
Beneath the behaviour, beneath the food, there is meaning. The Shadow of the Body is the most explicitly Jungian volume in the series, an invitation into the depth-psychological work of discovering what your weight has been doing for you rather than to you.
Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden introduces the shadow, the fat identity, and what being overweight may have protected you from. He examines the unconscious contract with your body, food as communication with the shadow, and the figure of the saboteur, before turning to the integration of the body shadow and the practice of shadow work itself.
This is not a book of techniques to apply from the outside. It is a descent into the material beneath the symptom, where lasting change actually begins.
For readers ready to look beneath the surface of their relationship with food and body.
Book Seven of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series.