Synopsis
The treatment of eating disorders remains controversial, protracted, and often unsuccessful. Therapists face a number of impediments to the optimal care fo their patients, from transference to difficulties in dealing with the patient's family.Treating Eating Disordersaddresses the pressure and responsibility faced by practicing therapists in the treatment of eating disorders. Legal, ethical, and interpersonal issues involving compulsory treatment, food refusal and forced feeding, managed care, treatment facilities, terminal care, and how the gender of the therapist affects treatment figure centrally in this invaluable navigational guide.
About the Author
Walter Vandereycken, Catholic University of Louvain and Clinical Director, Centre for Behaviour Therapy, Alexanian Psychiatric Hospital, Belgium and PIERRE J V BEUMONT, University of Sydney, AustraliaPierre J. V. Beumont, University of Sydney, Australia
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