Two Bodies: The Unconscious Life of Food in Athletes

Every athlete lives in two bodies: the one that performs, and the one that hungers.Behind athletic performance runs a hidden inner life of food, control and body that is rarely spoken aloud. Two Bodies turns the series toward high-performance sport and the athletes, former athletes and coaches who know this territory from the inside.Clinical Psychologist and Jungian Analyst Konrad van Staden explores the body you inherited, the unconscious contract, the architecture of craving and food addiction, the eating-disorder spectrum in athletes, the dissociated body, and the fat head and the body the athlete cannot see. He examines the relationships that carry weight and the integration work that actually lasts.This is not a nutrition manual or a performance guide. It is a depth-psychological account of what food and body mean beneath the discipline of sport.For athletes and the coaches, sport psychologists and clinicians who work with them. Book Fourteen of The Psychology of Weight Loss Series.