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Person Centered Psychiatry

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Eating disorders (ED) is a cluster of mental disorders that affect a large number of young adults mostly in Western or Westernized societies. The implementation of a treatment plan tailored to the needs of the sufferer has not always been an easy task. Forging a solid therapeutic alliance that can lead to a successful therapeutic process and a long term remission of the ED symptomatology is an essential element for the long term recovery from ED. A person-centered approach to ED puts the individual and her/his unique characteristics in the center of the diagnosis, therapy, and research. Specifically for the treatment of ED this approach would be tailored to suit that person’s illness, situation, and needs. That would involve a focus on recovery for the specific person taking under consideration all the aspects of the ED, i.e., psychological, physical, behavioral, social, and interpersonal, as well as health contributors, experience, and expectations. In conclusion a person-centered approach moves the ED sufferer from a state of stigma, shame, and coercion to a state of understanding, respect, and mutual collaboration.

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  1. Eating Disorders Unit, 1st Psychiatric Department, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Fragiskos Gonidakis MD, PhD

  2. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brest University Hospital, University of Western Brittany, Brest, France

    Anne-Sophie Lancien MD

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  1. Dept. of Psychiatry, New York University Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA

    Juan E. Mezzich

  2. Laboratory Ethics, Professionalism, University of Western Brittany, Bohars, France

    Michel Botbol

  3. Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George N. Christodoulou

  4. Department of Psychiatry, WASHINGTON UNIV SCH MED Department of Psychiatry, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

    C. Robert Cloninger

  5. Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

    Ihsan M. Salloum

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Gonidakis, F., Lancien, AS. (2016). Eating Disorders. In: Mezzich, J., Botbol, M., Christodoulou, G., Cloninger, C., Salloum, I. (eds) Person Centered Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39724-5_28

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