The power imbalance between parent and child leaves a trace
He is the author of Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (2023) and Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males (2016), and the editor of Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak (2018). One reason, says the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is the asymmetry of the relationships in a child’s world. One knows, whereas the other learns, and one gives, whereas the other needs.
- ▪He is the author of Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (2023) and Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males (2016), and the editor of Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak (2018).
- ▪One reason, says the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, is the asymmetry of the relationships in a child’s world.
- ▪One knows, whereas the other learns, and one gives, whereas the other needs.
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| Original publisher | Aeon |
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| Publication time | Sun, 24 May 2026 22:18:44 +0000 |
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iBeing smallNobody quite recovers from being a child: the asymmetry of power between parents and children always leaves a traceby Tom Wooldridge + BIOPhoto by Annie Otzen/Getty ImagesTom Wooldridgeis a psychoanalyst, founding dean of the School of Psychology at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and director of the Human Systems Lab, which explores the roles of AI and other emergent technologies in human systems. He is the author of Eating Disorders: A Contemporary Introduction (2023) and Understanding Anorexia Nervosa in Males (2016), and the editor of Psychoanalytic Treatment of Eating Disorders: When Words Fail and Bodies Speak (2018).
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