Jane Desmarais
Jane Desmarais is Deputy Head of English in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is co-author with Lawrence Goldie of Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind (Routledge, 2005), and author and editor of a number of books, essays and articles on psychoanalysis, literature and visual arts. She is co-editor of two volumes on eating disorders in children and adolescents, and has written on anorexia and passive resistance in Hermann Melville’s 1853 tale, Bartleby. She is currently working on a series of projects about Decadence, including a book on skin based on the work of Didier Anzieu’s Le Moi-Peau.
Exploring Feeding Difficulties in Children: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Exploring Eating Disorders in Adolescents: The Generosity of Acceptance
The number of people suffering from different eating disorders has grown dramatically within the last twenty years. These two volumes examine feeding difficulties and eating disorders in children and... (more)
Psychotherapy and the Treatment of Cancer Patients: Bearing Cancer in Mind
This book addresses the need for a more integrated care of cancer patients within hospitals which pays attention to the mental anguish as well as physical distress caused by the disease. It is based... (more)
Presence of Mind in Neurophysiological Processes
This book is a study of the simultaneous physiological recordings and psychoanalytic observations when emotional/psychological responses to external stimuli occur pari passu with observed... (more)