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Food Matters: Biopsychosocial Perspectives

Editor : Salman Akhtar, Editor : Nina Savelle-Rocklin

Reviews and Endorsements

'This collection of highly original and illuminating papers on the pivotal, though neglected, role of food and eating in our emotional and cultural lives fills a void in our field. Its clinical insights and rich storytelling will enlarge the scope of therapists’ attunement to patients, with great benefit to each member of the dyad. I enthusiastically recommend Food Matters to the practitioners of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at all levels of experience. It is a sumptuous feast indeed.'
Kathryn Zerbe, MD, Training and Supervising Analyst, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center and author of The Body Betrayed and Beyond the Body Betrayed

'Like music, food is with us always and everywhere. We enjoy it, prepare it, crave it, devour it, avoid it, clean it, love it, despise it, and above all, need it for our survival. Food can make us happy and desperate, proud and ashamed, hopeful and nostalgic. Despite such profound reverberations, the topic of food has somehow remained marginal in psychoanalysis. Now, this thoughtfully edited volume by Salman Akhtar and Nina Savelle-Rocklin brings to us a nuanced biopsychosocial understanding of our relationship with food. The book’s message is loud and clear: food matters.'
Aleksandar Dimitrijević, PhD Lecturer, International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin and co-editor of From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude

'From our earliest attachment phase, sights, smells, and tastes of food get intertwined with psychophysical development, mirroring, sustenance, and growth. This edited volume offers a remarkable exploration of such “food matters” across weaning, bulimia, self-starvation, cultural patterns of cooking and eating, medical illness, and other essential and imaginary territories linking food and mind. It is an exceptional contribution!'
Jaswant Guzder, MD, Psychoanalyst and Artist, Former Director of Child Psychiatry at Jewish General Hospital, Montreal