| Description |
xii, 404 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Bulimia : a displacement from psychological self to body / Alan Sugarman -- 2. Bulimia, dissociation, and empathy : a self-psychological view / Susan Sands -- 3. Bruch revisited : the role of interpretation of transference and resistance in the psychotherapy of eating disorders / William James -- 4. Reflections on boundaries in the psychotherapeutic relationship / William N. Davis -- 5. Managing opposing currents : an interpersonal psychoanalytic technique for the treatment of eating disorders / Steven Stern -- 6 Masochism in subclinical eating disorders / Howard D. Lerner -- 7. The clinical stages of treatment for the eating disorder patient with borderline personality disorder / Amy Baker, Dennis and Rany A. Sansone -- 8. Treatment of eating-disordered patients with borderline and false-self/narcissistic disorders / Craig L. Johnson -- 9 Gender identity issues in male bulimia nervosa / John A. Schneider -- 10. New maps of development, new models of therapy : the psychology of women and teh treatment of eating disorders / Catherine Steiner-Adair -- 11. Uses of countertransference in the treatment of eating disorders : a gender perspective / Susan C. Wooley -- 12. The role of the therapist in the treatment of eating disorders : a feminist psychodynamic approach / Ann Kearney-Cooke -- 13. Object relations and the family system : an integrative approach to understanding and treating eating disorders / Laura Lynn Humphrey -- 14. Disorders of the self in anorexia nervosa : an organismic-developmental paradigm / Michael Strober -- 15. The integration of psychodynamic and behavior therapy in the treatment of eating disorders : clinical issue versus theoretical mystique / David L. Tobin, Craig L. Johnson |
| Summary |
Part I, focusing on aspects of the self and questions of technique, covers such topics as the role of interpretation of transference and resistance the relationship of bulimia, dissociation, and empathy eating disorders as displacement from psychological self to body self boundaries in the psychotherapeutic relationship and an interpersonal psychoanalytic technique for treatment. Part II, addressing special subpopulations, discusses the implications of treating eating disorders with patients who also exhibit masochism, borderline personality disorder, and false-self/narcissistic disorders. This section also includes a unique chapter that delves into gender identity issues in male bulimia nervosa. Part III, reflecting feminist psychodynamic perspectives, offers new ways of thinking about development, countertransference, and the role of therapist in the treatment of women with eating disorders. Part IV examines the integration of such approaches as object relations and family systems, psychodynamic and behavior therapy, and offers discussion on disorders of the self in anorexia nervosa |
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Publisher description: Early treatment literature on anorexia nervosa and bulimia reported almost exclusively on brief treatment approaches that entailed either psychopharmacological or cognitive-behavioral interventions. While this literature demonstrated that one-third of these patients were treatable with brief therapy and another one third showed improvement, the final one-third of these patients did not respond to brief interventions. Recent research indicates that this last group of patients may also suffer from significant personality disorders or Axis II co-morbidity. Considered difficult to treat, these patients require longer term, informed individual psychotherapy. Designed specifically to address the challenges of this difficult-to-treat population, this volume is the first to focus exclusively on exploring eating disorders from a psychodynamic perspective. Chapters are written by foremost clinicians in field who examine their current views regarding the etiology and treatment of this client population from a psychodynamic perspective |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Anorexia nervosa -- Treatment.
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Bulimia -- Treatment.
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Feminist therapy.
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Psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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Anorexia Nervosa -- psychology.
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Anorexia Nervosa -- therapy.
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Bulimia -- psychology.
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Bulimia.
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Psychotherapy.
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Bulimia -- therapy.
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| Author |
Johnson, Craig, 1950-
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| LC no. |
90013867 |
| ISBN |
0898625505 |
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9780898625509 |
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