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Originally Posted by TeaVicar?
I can relate Echos. Although eating as a way of avoiding or dealing with emotions, should hypothetically, be dealt with in "normal" therapy I think most therapists are not up to speed on the complexities of food, eating and our relationship with our bodies. In our case, with male therapists, I also find the gender difference tricky because hating our bodies, diet culture and eating our emotions feel almost intrinsic to being born female.
Have you listened/read any of Laura Thomas's stuff? She's a dietitian but comes from an intuitive eating/health at every size ethos. She has a podcast called "don't salt my game", it really good! I had a brief look at her online course (which is eye wateringly expensive) and she seems to go down a CBT route. Another good one is Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach, which does have more of a psychoanalytical slant, though it's a book of it's time and the idealisation of weight loss in it, is very problematic and not helpful.
ping me if you want to chat, I am slightly immersed in this stuff 
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Thank you, I think you are spot on with the bolded part. He does understand superficially, but I don't think he has any specific insight about how to manage those conflicting introjected values and the relationship with self that it leaves you with.
Thanks too for the reading recommendations and the offer to PM, much appreciated.