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Empirical Support for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders

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Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Part of the book series: Current Clinical Psychiatry ((CCPSY))

Abstract

The available research suggests that the etiology of eating disorders (EDs) is multifactorial and individually variable, with risk conferred from personality pathology, family history, developmental history, sociocultural phenomena, comorbid disorders, and genetic endowment [1–5]. The treatment of EDs is complicated by characteristic problems in interpersonal relationships, resistance to change in symptomatic behavior, and difficulty in accessing emotional experience [6, 7]. Psychotherapy for EDs must target not only overt symptoms, but also motivation, emotion regulation, insight, and resistance [8]. Among the various forms of “talk therapy,” psychodynamic psychotherapy arguably has the most techniques for addressing the complex problems characteristic of individuals with EDs.

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    We focus here on CBT therapists because they show more variability in the degree to which they integrate psychodynamic psychotherapy into their practice. Psychodynamic psychotherapists are uniformly psychodynamic, and therefore no relationship is seen between the use of these interventions and the outcome.

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Thompson-Brenner, H., Weingeroff, J., Westen, D. (2009). Empirical Support for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Eating Disorders. In: Levy, R.A., Ablon, J.S. (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-444-5_4

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