Nina Savelle-Rocklin
Nina Savelle-Rocklin, is a psychoanalyst, author, and podcast host. She is the author of Food for Thought: Perspectives on Eating Disorders (Rowman & Littlefield) and co-editor (with Salman Akhtar) of Beyond the Primal Addiction (Karnac Books) and Food Matters: A Biopsychosocial Approach (Phoenix Publishing House). She also wrote The Binge Cure: 7 Steps to Outsmart Emotional Eating and its companion workbook, The Binge Cure Journal, as well as Beyond Binge Eating: 100 Powerful Reflections to Transform Your Relationship with Food. Dr. Savelle-Rocklin contributed chapters in four scholarly books, including her chapter “The origins and fundamentals of psychoanalysis” (in Freud & The Buddha), and wrote more than fifty articles on disordered eating for publications such as Psyche Online and Psychology Today, the National Eating Disorders Association, Eating Disorder Hope, and other national and international organizations and publications. Her media appearances include being a featured guest on “The Dr. Drew Podcast” and more than twenty radio shows and podcasts worldwide. Her radio program, “The Dr. Nina Show,” on L.A. Talk Radio aired for more than six years and can now be heard as a podcast. Her other podcasts include “The Forking Truth,” “Mind Matters,” and “The Binge Cure with Dr. Nina.” Dr. Savelle-Rocklin is also on the board of Rose City Center, a psychoanalytically informed flexible fee counseling and training center, where she is the director of the Development Committee.
Food Matters: Biopsychosocial Perspectives
Food matters because food is essential to sustain life, and food matters are complex and wide-ranging, encompassing the symbolic as well as the practical. The rich discussions of the relationship... (more)
Beyond the Primal Addiction: Food, Sex, Gambling, Internet Shopping and Work
Written by experienced practitioners in the fields of addiction and psychoanalysis, and illustrated by a range of moving vignettes, this groundbreaking book examines the psychological foundations of... (more)
Eyes, Mind and Vision: Visual Realities and Metaphors in Psychoanalysis
A vital investigation into the importance of eyes and vision in psychoanalytic theory, which includes conceptual innovations, linguistic nuances, illustrations from fairy tales and folklore, film... (more)