2 results for (book:nopr AND session:660 AND stemmed:moral)
1/57 (2%)
foods
vitamins
overweight
eat
diet
[... 29 paragraphs ...]
Moral values become attached to food, with some seen as good and some as bad. Symptoms appear, and are quite directly considered to be the natural result of ingesting foods on the forbidden list. In this system, at least, the body is not insulted with a bewildering assortment of drugs for therapy. It may, however, be starved of very needed nourishment. Beyond that the whole problem of health and illness becomes simplistically applied, and here food is scrutinized. You are what you think, not what you eat — and to a large extent what you think about what you eat is far more important.
[... 26 paragraphs ...]
1/22 (5%)
underweight
weight
eat
transference
Seventeen
[... 19 paragraphs ...]
(“The reason why some lose-weight groups succeed in their therapy, at least momentarily, is that belief in the worth of the self is stressed. Unfortunately, weight is attacked as ‘bad’ or ‘evil’; symbolic moral judgments enter the act. The therapy seldom has long-reaching effects because from then on any gained weight is even more negatively charged.
[... 1 paragraph ...]
