Obesity in childhood and personality development.

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Abstract
From a study of obese children the author concludes that obesity in childhood may be understood as a disturbance in the maturation of the total personality and as a somatic compensation for thwarted creative drives, whereby the total size of the body becomes the expressive organ of the conflict. Neither mechanical reduction of food intake nor endocrine therapy is usually indicated. To be successful, therapy should help the child grow independent and self-reliant and make constructive use of his good physical and mental endowment, so that he can find more dynamic outlets for his creative drives than the static form of physical largeness.
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  • Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation

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