Jane Middelton-Moz, a brilliant clinician in the Seattle area, in Children of Trauma: Rediscovering the Discarded Self, tells of watching the origins of a possible eating addiction while sitting in an airport. A mother and father were having a verbal fight. Their eighteen-month-old child was lying on a seat next to them. They were paying no attention to the child. Each time the child made any noise, the mother thrust a juice bottle in her mouth. A person sat down next to the child and startled her. She began to cry in alarm. The mother looked in her purse and found another bottle filled with
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