The Fat Lady Sings: A Psychological Exploration of the Cultural Fat Complex and its Effects

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Cheryl Fuller

The Fat Lady Sings

A Psychological Exploration of the Cultural Fat Complex and its Effects

Cheryl Fuller

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Karnac Books
27 March 2017

Analytical & Jungian psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Psychotherapy; Eating disorders & therapy

In the analytic encounter, body meets body, yet rarely is body mentioned. Without a body, we become like the nymph Echo, a disembodied voice condemned to echo what she hears. Rooted in analytical psychology, The Fat Lady Sings challenges the notion that the fat patient must change to fit into a thin world. For years we have been bombarded by warnings about the Obesity Epidemic, a concern rivaling that about terrorism. Curiously, the depth psychological literature is mostly silent about this preoccupation, its origins, meaning, and the psychotherapeutic treatment issues involved.

Almost everything written about fat and being fat comes from the world of the slender. Fat people are rarely consulted about their lives, how they eat and move and live. They are too often not seen as credible, or as reliable witnesses to their own experience. The Fat Lady Sings is an exploration of fat and our culture, the fat complex that grips our culture, how the war on obesity is fought in the clinical setting, and how being fat is an ongoing traumatic experience. The book grows out of the author's life as a fat woman, her work as a Jungian psychotherapist, and as a patient in analysis.

By: Cheryl Fuller
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 147mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 317g
ISBN: 9781782204978
ISBN 10: 1782204970
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 27 March 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cheryl Fuller, PhD, is a Jungian psychotherapist living on the coast of Maine. She has her doctorate in Jungian Studies and has had many years of study and training at various Jung institutes, as well as in Jungian analysis. She brings over forty years of clinical experience, humuor and enthusiasm to the study of Jung, psychotherapy, feminism, and fat studies. She has a private practice for individuals in Maine and online.

Reviews for The Fat Lady Sings: A Psychological Exploration of the Cultural Fat Complex and its Effects

-The Fat Lady Sings is a superb and compassionate work for anyone who cares about eliminating prejudice, hearing what is unspoken in our society, and for the future of psychotherapy itself. The -fat complex- leaves fat women as one of the most reviled and misunderstood of social groups. Just as there is no feminism without the elimination of sizeism, so there can be no true psychotherapy unless the ongoing social traumatization of the fat body is given its due. The Fat Lady Sings is scholarly, provocative, revisionary and revealing.---Susan Rowland, PhD, chair of the MA in Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life, Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, and author of Jung: A Feminist Revision