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Book SynopsisIt should not surprise us that so many are finding unique value in the experiential techniques. The fact that eating-disordered patients adopt physical and often complex metaphoric means of expressing their emotional pain suggests the difficulty we are likely to encounter in asking them to articulate the inarticulable. In moving to spatial, kinesthetic, and symbolic expression, we are, in a sense, agreeing to speak the patient's language rather than our own.
Given the very nature of eating disorders, many clinicians are finding that experiential methods are particularly applicable for treating patients who suffer from them. Providing a valuable new tool for practitioners, EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES FOR EATING DISORDERS is the first text to focus solely on the application of expressive therapies and experiential techniques to the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
Each chapter of this innovative work systematically reviews a single experiential treatment approach. A
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Provides practitioners with a wealth of ideas on how to work with eating-disordered patients by doing, rather than by just talking. - Contemporary Psychology
Table of Contents1. Introduction, Hornyak & Baker.
PART I. BULIMIA NERVOSA.
2. Reclaiming the Body: Using Guided Imagery in the Treatment of Body Image Disturbance among Bulimic Women, Kearney-Cooke.
3. Hypnosis, Hypnotizability, and the Bulimic Patient, Pettinati, Kogan, Margolis, Shrier, & Wade.
4. The Use of In-session Structured Eating in the Outpatient Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa, Hoage.
5. Family Sculpting with Bulimic Families, Root.
6. Psychodrama and the Treatment of Bulimia, Callahan.
7. Dance/Movement Therapy with Bulimic Patients, Stark, Aronow, & McGeehan.
8. Art Therapy in the Long-term Psychodynamic Treatment of Bulimic Women, Morenoff & Sobol.
9. Music Therapy Improvisation Techniques with Bulimic Patients, Nolan.
PART II. ANOREXIA NERVOSA
10. The use of Metaphor/Poetry Therapy in the Treatment of the Reticent Subgroup of Anorectic Patients, Woodall & Andersen.
11. Structured Eating Experiences in the Inpatient Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Sparnon & Hornyak.
12. Anorexia Nervosa: Experiencing the Self through Psychodrama and Gestalt Therapy, Hudgins.
13. Disturbed Body Image in Anorexia Nervosa: Dance/Movement Therapy Interventions, Rice, Hardenbergh, & Hornyak.
14. Art Therapy and Anorexia: Experiencing the Authentic Self, Fleming.
15. Music as a Therapeutic Tool in Treating Anorexia Nervosa, Parente.
